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11-25-2011, 03:20 PM
Civic watchdog group Citizen Participation (PC) described recent statements by the British ambassador as "very delicate" and called on the administration to take heed of the ambassador's words. Earlier this week, Ambassador Steven Fisher said that at least one major British company had withdrawn from the country after rejecting repeated approaches with attempts to elicit bribes, resulting in their business being stifled. PC spokesman Samir Chami Isa said that the administration has to pay attention to this because it is surely happening to other investors as well. Chami Isa said that if the people involved could be identified they should be charged in the courts. In an article in El Nuevo Diario, jurist Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) called on the ambassador from Great Britain to name names, on the grounds that it was unethical to say that two companies had left the country because of corruption, without identifying the culprits or the victims. The well-known commentator said that it was within the diplomat's duty to defend his nation's companies but a statement about corruption on that scale is really troublesome. Castillo is the head of the Commission on Ethics and Fight against Corruption.
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