SANTO DOMINGO.- The Executive Branch’s adviser on Drugs yesterday said the Government will apply the parts that affect former president Hipólito Mejía in the conviction to 10 years ni prison of Baninter president Ramon Báez Figueroa and several of his executives.

Marino Vinicio -Vincho- Castillo, when asked about a letter Mejía sent to President Leonel Fernandez, said "for me that letter is everything that (Andres) Dauhajre and (Jaime) Aristy Escuder have been saying, trying to justify him and he doesn’t have a firm idea in his head,” in reference to Mejia’s former economic adviser and his colleague, respectively.

The official said that instead of Mejia gaining politically, “we’re now going to publish all the parts of the sentence that condemns him, and the reason why his administration had to be prosecuted."

Whereas ruling PLD party general secretary Reinaldo Pared said neither Mejía nor the PRD is competent to speak about the economy and much less to prescribe how to manage it. He said in Mejía’s hands an ailing economy would die.

SOURCE: diariolibre.com.do