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NewsWhore
03-30-2007, 04:00 PM
Hoy newspaper advocates that fairness prevail in a new bill that the IMF is seeking that Congress pass. In an editorial today, the newspaper urges that legislators also contemplate penalties for electrical fraud committed by companies against consumers, not only those committed by consumers that seek to get around some of the highest power rates in the region. Hoy says it will be fair to penalize illegal connections of consumers or those that evade paying for their consumption. "But the same instrument should cover modalities of fraud committed by those that produce and distribute power, such as the charging for power not supplied, for blackouts and the applying of penalties on individual contracts," writes the editorialist.

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