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Santo Domingo.-  Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario revealed yesterday that it has charged 2,300 people with swapping their identity and other crimes with the Cedula.

He called on sports figures who know they’re affected by forged data to go voluntarily before the JCE.  He said 1,372 supplanted documents have been detected thus far and 497 for forgery.

The latest two cases of Major League Baseball players allegedly having forged IDs are Leo Núñez (Juan Carlos Oviedo) and Fausto Carmona (Roberto Hernandez Heredia).

Rosario said the United States embassy submitted both cases to the JCE. “Hopefully all Dominican athletes who’ve accomplished fame and those who haven’t come to us and thusly do a favor to the community.”

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Written by: Atabey, 23 Jan 2012 9:24 AM
From: United States, NYC
Implement an "Amnesty Period" for all to step forward. Have them pay a substantial fine, say for the Stars some 500,000 dollars and bring things up to standards regarding documentation. The correct means to attack the problem is via a tougher process of documentation validation. And yes a bio-metric system offers better, not perfect, validation potential. Work quickly and get this issue behind us.
Written by: gmiller261, 23 Jan 2012 10:09 AM
From: United States

2,300... please...
Written by: RoyStone, 23 Jan 2012 10:27 AM
From: Australia
Fine the forgers? What about the corrupt officials who let the forgeries through, presumably for an unofficial "fee"? There is a fee for everything in this country, even avoiding prosecution for murder.
Written by: Ricardolito, 23 Jan 2012 11:00 AM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I have always thought that it might be quite fun and entertaining to have an other identity ,,and it seems that my identity is also an attraction as it has been stolen 3 times in 10 years on the internet ,,,with my picture and much of my personal details shown with a face of another person ...It is rather difficult at times to tell people I am not who they think I am
Written by: riosm, 23 Jan 2012 11:48 AM
From: United States


Good thing no one listed the total number of fake passports, fake green cards, fake driver's lic., fake credit cards, I.D theft etc..etc.. in the U.S today.
Written by: RoyStone, 23 Jan 2012 12:09 PM
From: Australia
riosm, perhaps you can enlighten us with the statistics?
Maybe you are doing the Dominican thing of saying that it happens in other countries, so its okay for the Dominican Republic?
Written by: Ricardolito, 23 Jan 2012 12:22 PM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
it is world wide ..not good anywhere
Written by: riosm, 23 Jan 2012 1:25 PM
From: United States
I wish I knew the numbers I would of posted.

Never mind cyber crimes.

"Dominican thing" ??? It's NEVER O.K......it's like I stole, robbed because I was hungry as an excuse.

Only a tip of the iceberg now that awareness is coming to light, soon to be a world wide problem to usher in iris, DNA, chips and finger print. Soon the Governments of the world will know and record every move of it's citizens.

Heck in America we even pay to have a chip [full medical history] placed under the skin with GPS tracking and monitor systems on our pets to I.D when they get lost of stolen [dog napped].
Written by: CeJota, 23 Jan 2012 4:59 PM
From: United States, Augusta Ga/ Philly Pa
seems like usa want the sport back....too many baseball superstars that don't look like them

don't hate the "players" hate the game/officials who assist them to get fake ids for a fee
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