Attorney General César Pina Toribio said that the Department of Prevention of Corruption under his office has distributed the pending 80 cases of corruption in his office among four assistance lawyers and seven auditors. The previous director of the office resigned, frustrated because none of the cases his office studied went beyond the study. El Nacional newspaper reported that the government would be "reopening" the HydroQuebec-Sofati case, involving fraud of US$20 million against the state and in which leading officers of the Balaguer administration were implicated. The case was put aside when today legal advisor to the President Abel Rodríguez del Orbe was Attorney General. Pina Toribio said that the case cannot be reopened because it was never closed. It is believed that the case was stashed away for political reasons then, and political analysts now speculate it could be "reopened" for political reasons.
