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02-15-2008, 03:30 PM
Miguel Cocco, director of the Customs Department says that Dominican society is permeated by corruption and impunity, which is halting development. During a press conference called to announce the coming III Marathon of Customs Confraternity, Cocco told the press that "those who have money buy justice, and get rich fast violating all rules, while a poor person finds it hard to make ends meet, unless he is the accomplice of a corrupt person."
Cocco criticized that there is corruption in the private and public sector. He criticized the fact that corruption in the private sector is not denounced. He said that many of the people who complain of corruption in the government are the leading corruptors of society and those that buy consciences. "The private sector buys government officials, and is thus an accomplice in corruption," he said.

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