SANTO DOMINGO.- A hidden microphone found recently in an office of an well-known executive has prompted unease among important business leaders who fear that it’s use is for industrial espionage.

The news of the detection of the equipment, a small hi-tech wireless microphone which allows listening in on far off sounds has been disclosed among high level executives of different business areas.

As a result of becoming aware of the case, executives who handle intelligence and strategic data have undertook exhaustive sweeps of their offices and other areas and salons where work meetings are held frequently.

A source told the newspaper El Caribe that the revisions must be conducted in an extreme and meticulously manner, and because of the microphones’ diminutive size, are placed where they can be confused as a part of the lighting fixtures and other objects, going unnoticed.

The interest provoked by the finding led some companies to conduct the extesnsive sweeps which include the ventilation and AC ductworks.