Attorney General Abel Rodríguez del Orbe announced the government Corruption Prevention National Strategic Plan, which he described as a frontal attack against corruption within the country’s public administration. The plan was presented by Dr. Abel Rodríguez del Orbe to rectors, vice-rectors and deans of various universities, with the objective of integrating these academic centers to the creation of a counter-culture that can terminate the "white collar crimes" that prevail at the public administration level. The Attorney General hopes the approach will help create a counter-culture to fight the corruption culture, rebuff corruption and the misappropriation of public funds. Rodríguez del Orbe said, "…the corruption culture makes the heart turn blind to the abuses of power against the public property; we do not even blush to see that officers who arrived on bicycles at the beginning of their tenure, upon departing, live in palaces and ride sport utility vehicles that cost millions of pesos." The plan seeks to: 1) substantially reduce the incidence of corruption in the Dominican Republic; 2) bring about transparency in the different activities of public administration, which implies that the citizens know the destiny of public funds and the administration of such funds; and 3) develop a culture based on honesty, work, vocation of service and respect of the law. The Attorney General stressed that sanctions should be applied to the corrupt as well as to the corrupting agent.
