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03-23-2007, 04:00 PM
Director of the Department for the Prevention of Corruption (DEPRECO), Octavio Lister, has disclosed that Odalis Carmen Santana, a former employee at the Ministry of Finance Pensions Department, has left the Dominican Republic via Las Americas International Airport and is now in an unnamed Caribbean country. Lister also announced that the whereabouts of Angel Jose Castro are currently unknown and officials believe that he too was successful in fleeing the country. Castro was in charge of the Electronic Payroll at the Ministry of Finance. In all, nine people, including Castro and Santana, are accused of taking part in the Pensions Department scam whereby checks were issued and cashed irregularly. An estimated RD$50 million was fraudulently disbursed to dead people, to people who had never worked and to young people who do not qualify. People as young as 23 were collecting monthly pension checks for up to RD$50,000.
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