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The general manager of the governmental electricity distribution company, EdeNorte, Andres Cueto and his lawyer Juan de Dios Hiraldo on Wednesday, 10 August presented documentation to accuse highly popular Somos Pueblo TV and online news service of defamation. Cueto and Hiraldo are also accusing the Sed de Justicia Foundation in the same defamation recourse. Lawyer Hiraldo said that Francisco Antonio Rosario, president of the Sed de Justicia Foundation and Eduardo Sanchez Tolentino, manager of Somos Pueblo violated articles 21 and 21 of High Tech Law 53-07 and articles 367, 371 and 373 of the Dominican Penal Code.

“We cannot allow that citizens continue to throw mud on the reputation of people that have come to serve the country,” said the lawyer when initiating the legal recourse.

Cueto complained about comments made online by Somos Pueblo on a recent tender for...

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