Today’s Listín Diario headlines that deputy Aníbal Páez, one of the most influential officers in the past Balaguer government, owes RD$7 million to Inespre, the Instituto Nacional de Estabilización de Precios, now under focus in the press for supposed corruption of previous managements. The Listín has carried the story of how past authorities allowed the leasing of property of that institution for symbolic amounts and liberal use of credit for purchases. The Listín Diario said that Páez, who is a PRSC congressman and personal assistant to President Joaquín Balaguer, is just one of many former government officers, military and congressmen that collectively owe Inespre over RD$50 million for purchases of merchandise made on credit. District Attorney Francisco Brito said he would investigate the case.
