NewsWhore
10-16-2007, 05:20 PM
Listin Diario reports today that the Bani municipal authorities has actually collected on the RD$10 million payment for the authorization of construction within an area that is being claimed as part of a protected area, even before receiving authorization from President Leonel Fernandez to go ahead with the deal. As reported today, the municipality has already received the lucrative payment.
The shipbuilding company, Ciramar International Trading, claims that it needed the extra territory for security purposes and that it is an environmentally minded company that has made major contributions to the community. Act No. 21/2004 of Work Session Book No. 44 establishes that the city hall did not object to the request for the purpose of the 35,000 square meters within the Las Calderas Dunes Natural Monument in Peravia province. The newspaper points to the irregularity that the deal would close on 9 February 2006. But Decree 450-06 whereby President Leonel Fernandez would authorize the deal was not issued until 22 November 2006.
The newspaper says that the sale happened a year after the Bani municipality had already formalized a lease contract for 20 years, on 3 December 2003, with the option for Ciramar International to purchase for RD$300,000 a month, the 35,000m2 that it was to sell in December 2004, according to certification issued by the municipal secretariat, signed by Dalma Arias, as president of the city hall at that time, and Wilson Guerrero as secretary. The newspaper says that the first payment, for RD$3 million, was made on 25 August 2005, with check No. 7049, that establishes that it is an advance payment on the purchase of lot DC5 within Parcel No. 977 of the Municipality of Bani, valued at RD$10,732,500. Two other checks were issued in the name of the municipality, No. 7101, dated 20 October 2005, as a second payment for RD$3 million, and a third, No. 7132, for RD$4,723,500 as final payment for the property.
Environmental organizations and community service bodies are opposing the deal.
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The shipbuilding company, Ciramar International Trading, claims that it needed the extra territory for security purposes and that it is an environmentally minded company that has made major contributions to the community. Act No. 21/2004 of Work Session Book No. 44 establishes that the city hall did not object to the request for the purpose of the 35,000 square meters within the Las Calderas Dunes Natural Monument in Peravia province. The newspaper points to the irregularity that the deal would close on 9 February 2006. But Decree 450-06 whereby President Leonel Fernandez would authorize the deal was not issued until 22 November 2006.
The newspaper says that the sale happened a year after the Bani municipality had already formalized a lease contract for 20 years, on 3 December 2003, with the option for Ciramar International to purchase for RD$300,000 a month, the 35,000m2 that it was to sell in December 2004, according to certification issued by the municipal secretariat, signed by Dalma Arias, as president of the city hall at that time, and Wilson Guerrero as secretary. The newspaper says that the first payment, for RD$3 million, was made on 25 August 2005, with check No. 7049, that establishes that it is an advance payment on the purchase of lot DC5 within Parcel No. 977 of the Municipality of Bani, valued at RD$10,732,500. Two other checks were issued in the name of the municipality, No. 7101, dated 20 October 2005, as a second payment for RD$3 million, and a third, No. 7132, for RD$4,723,500 as final payment for the property.
Environmental organizations and community service bodies are opposing the deal.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)