Granted freedom involved in fraud against Customs

SANTIAGO "For what they did not know here in the Dominican Republic there is no law to hear this. The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals for the District Court of Santiago gave a financial guarantee of 2.0 million pesos to each of those involved in the fraud for more than 100 million pesos from the regional offices of Customs.

With the decision the court remand replaced Estévez Herald Peña, Miguel Angel Rosa Adalberto Lazala and children of recognized leaders of the Dominican Liberation Party.

The accused must be submitted 30 days each month with the Attorney Prosecutor of Santiago. It also imposed a ban from leaving the country.

On July 27 passed the General Customs Directorate (DGA) submitted today to the Justice to three employees, including a son of a member elected by the Dominican Liberation Party, which dispatched vans full of items without using the verification and customs controls, which were implemented by more than 3.0 million pesos a month.

The submission also included the president of a freight company (Mudancera). The Office of Santiago reported that tax evasion is estimated at more than 100 million pesos.

Submitted by the Prosecutor's Office to include subcollectors Adalberto Santiago de la Rosa Rosario son, whose father is a deputy, current director of the National Institute of Snuff (Intabaco) and board member of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD); Herald Pena Estevez , store manager of the DGA for the company Logistic Now, Miguel Angel de Jesus Lazala Cabrera, flume Customs II, assigned to the company named, and José Ignacio Zapata, president of the freight company Papo Shipping.

"In research, versions of some of those involved, the group allegedly received an estimated 800 thousand and 900 thousand pesos per week for missing containers without being verified," says a note of Customs issued several weeks ago in relation to case.