SANTO DOMINGO.-  The Punta Cana tourism group denounced that the land occupied by a company of which the present National District Prosecutor Jose Manuel Hernandez is a shareholder, was never yielded voluntarily nor comprised the payment of legal fees, according to the terms of a contract signed between the tourist conglomerate and the legal firm Hernandez Peguero.

The tourist company explained in an paid advertisement and a declaration sent to the local media that it does not know of a company called Elipse, S.A. "which is proprietor of a portion of land supposedly given as payment of professional fees to the attorneys Hernandez Peguero, portion which is totally different from what was agreed in the mandate and quota litigation contract."

It also affirms that the land involved in the litigation was never occupied irregularly and therefore were not evicted by efforts of the firm Hernandez Peguero.

The Punta Cana Group contracted the lawyers Hernandez Peguero to evict squatters from land and the contract established that the payment would be 1,200 tareas to be located by common agreement between the parts and whose borders would be placed not less than 500 meters from the highway which leads to the project.

The tourism group states that the property occupied by the brothers Hernandez Peguero was neither part of the land evicted nor corresponded with the contractual clause on the location of lands in relation with the highway of the Punta Cana project.

The partnership, whose president is Frank Rainieri, states that "we have acted to avoid being evicted from our own lands which we have never yielded to the attorneys Hernandez."

In addition, it announced the beginning of new legal, civil, penal and disciplinary actions against the Hernandez law firm, including the eviction from the parcel number 65-A of Cadastral District 11-12,  Higüey municipality.