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12-08-2011, 02:30 PM
Political leader Hatuey De Camps and commentator Cesar Medina joined the voices that are calling for the Dominican justice system to correct the situation that is keeping Manuel Arturo Pellerano and Juan Felipe Mendoza in prison. De Camps took part in the program "Hoy Mismo" which is produced by Medina, and he said that both Pellerano as well as Mendoza qualify for a bail bond because they have served their sentence correctly and obediently. "I believe that they qualify to be freed on a bail bond and a series of things and even for reduced sentences, and that they have fulfilled obediently and correctly a sanction that in large part was brought on by the economic crisis," said De Camps when he was asked about the case. He said that the Justice Department should act and not leave a decision of this nature on the shoulders of the President of the Republic. "I feel that they have complied and as such they should proceed (to free them)," said De Camps.
Commentator Cesar Medina described the injustice that is being committed in this case as "unforgivable" and he criticized the position taken by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice. "I do not know what has happened with Jorge Subero Isa who has always acted with responsibility. What has happened in this case, where a man who has acted with responsibility has not done so?" asked the commentator.
He described the injustice that is being committed in this judicial process as a "very serious and unforgivable error" since there are no plaintiffs, either public or private, and he said that the worst of all is that this conspires against the very institutionalism of the Justice Department. He said that the worst thing that could happen to the Dominican Justice System is for the Chief Executive to have to use his powers to order Pellerano and Mendoza's release under a Presidential Pardon, because this would mean that the Supreme Court was not capable of doing so.
Pellerano and Mendoza have spent the last three years in prison at Najayo despite having repaid all their debts with the creditors of the National Bank of Credit (Bancredito) and the Central Bank and the Attorney General both withdrawing their complaints. Among the details that have come into the public light in the debate over this case, attention was called to the fact that in the hearings of the so-called "Little Bancredito" case, not a single witness was called nor was a single document placed into evidence. The so-called "Big Bancredito" case never even reached trial because Pellerano and Mendoza reached an agreement with the Central Bank to pay more than RD$12 billion pesos, an agreement that has been faithfully kept.
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Commentator Cesar Medina described the injustice that is being committed in this case as "unforgivable" and he criticized the position taken by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice. "I do not know what has happened with Jorge Subero Isa who has always acted with responsibility. What has happened in this case, where a man who has acted with responsibility has not done so?" asked the commentator.
He described the injustice that is being committed in this judicial process as a "very serious and unforgivable error" since there are no plaintiffs, either public or private, and he said that the worst of all is that this conspires against the very institutionalism of the Justice Department. He said that the worst thing that could happen to the Dominican Justice System is for the Chief Executive to have to use his powers to order Pellerano and Mendoza's release under a Presidential Pardon, because this would mean that the Supreme Court was not capable of doing so.
Pellerano and Mendoza have spent the last three years in prison at Najayo despite having repaid all their debts with the creditors of the National Bank of Credit (Bancredito) and the Central Bank and the Attorney General both withdrawing their complaints. Among the details that have come into the public light in the debate over this case, attention was called to the fact that in the hearings of the so-called "Little Bancredito" case, not a single witness was called nor was a single document placed into evidence. The so-called "Big Bancredito" case never even reached trial because Pellerano and Mendoza reached an agreement with the Central Bank to pay more than RD$12 billion pesos, an agreement that has been faithfully kept.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)