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Santo Domingo.- Although government officials have stolen more than RD$100 billion from Dominican taxpayers, only a few thieves go behind bars.
Anticorruption Department (DPCA) director Hotoniel the mayor of a small town has been convicted of embezzling a mere 5 Bonilla said Monday that although many of the heads of the companies accused of embezzlement had been convicted, many have been subsequently acquitted.
He said he decided to reveal the statistics as diverse sectors had demanded, mostly from the concern stated by the cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez.
Bonilla invited “some people who walk around frothing their hands to review it (the report),” which he said includes major cases from 2000 to 2010, with 19 government and private institutions.
Embezzlement, acquittals
Bonilla’s list includes the allocation of vehicles in the Land Transport Technical Office (OTTT), of RD$ 240 million; embezzlement of funds of the social programs (PEME), more than RD$2,400 million; embezzlement in the allocation of vehicles in INESPRE; RD$75 million; the RD$200 million fraud in propane gas; RD$1.3 billion swindle in the allocation of houses in the official agency INVI.
The official also noted the RD$500 million embezzlement in the greenhouses program; the RD$2.01 billion embezzlement of the sovereign bonds to build the Electrical Freeway and the more than RD$8.7 million in forged checks in the buses office OMSA.
Another acquitted or partially convicted case is the RD$10.5 million in turbines of the Dominican Air Force (FAD) jets.
The only convictions of Government officials were the Municipal Board of El Puerto, in Villa Altagracia, in an embezzlement of more than five million pesos, and the head of the Border Development Office director Yorman Vazquez, sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling several million pesos.
Bonilla added that other private sector convictions include the banks Mercantil (RD$8.5 billion), Baninter (RD$55 billion), and the RD$22.5 billion in Bancréditok which is pending sentencing.
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Those who are asked to prosecute and judge them are just as dishonest as they are.
Does anyone else feel as though the people in the picture are laughing at us?
With the right connection and a little propina, you get away with worse than murder.
Hotoniel, why don´t you close the shop and get a job?
Of course they are laughing at you. They are ALLOWED by the empty suited president to rape the majority of the people of the DR.
That is why they keep the majority of the people poor and uneducated.
The DR has a failed government. It is not for the people, it is for themselves.
What a shame. it's like we know it and don't act to stop it!
Moreover, once these hijos de sus malditas madres are identified, we need to make sure that they are convicted, that the funds are recuperated, and that they go to jail. Inpunity is the reason why people keep doing this, and we need strong oversight institutions to conduct audits, investigate aberrations, and prosecute wrong doings.
In addition, a solid Proceeds of Crime Law, which can retrospectively work out what was embezzled, and take it all back. The houses, cars, money given away to family, and put them in the poor house for good.
Every centavo should given back to the departments that recovered it, to weed out the rest and build the prisons to keep these animals in.
Wow, dreaming is good....back to reality..........