DGA submits cases

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The Customs Department has informed that the main parties involved in contraband cases over the last three months are to be charged today. The accused include customs agents Julio Alfredo Rondon and Esteban Baez Corporan, who are charged with smuggling more than 80 large containers into the country in order to avoid paying taxes. Rondon is also the person who bought the companies Gran Trading Company, CGV Commercial and Commercialist Copra, all of which were involved in importing contraband into the Dominican Republic. Rondon bought the companies from Judicial and Financial Councilors SA, and this led to speculations that the company's owners were involved in importing the contraband. Diario Libre adds that Rondon was also responsible for irregularities in transactions by Grey Marbel Investment. Rondon is in custody and is scheduled to go to the Attorney General's office at 9am today so that charges can be formally filed. He has so has refused to name his companies' previous owners, or to say who owns the 36 large containers of smuggled goods still left on the docks. Customs agents Nelson Octavio Camilo Moreno, Genaro Antonio Ayala Sanchez and Bremy Antonio Pimentel have all had their licenses revoked for their involvement in the contraband case.

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