Jan 10 2007
DOMINICAN FINANCE MINISTRY MAFIA EVEN CHEATED THE BARRIOS’ POOR
SANTO DOMINGO.- The director of the Corruption Prevention Department said that he will ask that those people implicated and investigated in connection with the alleged ring that embezzled millions in the Finance Ministry’s Pensions and Retirements Department, be declared fugitives and arrested.
Octavio Líster said that in the next hours charges will be filed against those implicated in the case, and that it didn’t take place before because it merited gathering more evidence on the suspects’ participation.
The official said that the director of the Finance Ministry’s Payroll Department for Retired and Pensioners sent to the head of informatics the payroll for digitalizing, process in which they allegedly included themselves and other beneficiaries created “artificially” in 27 accounts, in which monthly sums ranging from RD$50,000 to RD$80,000 were deposited.
Lister specified that the alleged fraud was carried including relatives and going to the barrios to look for presumed beneficiaries of a “Government plan.”
He said that those who opened the accounts kept the ATM card of the “beneficiary,” with which they withdrew the money.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic News, http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=21329
