Juan Hubieres, a minibus union leader, accuses the new director of the Oficina Metropolitana de Servicios de Autobuses (OMSA) of turning that government public transport bus service into a family business for his own profit. Hubieres, president of the Federación Nacional de Transporte La Nueva Opción denounced that the director Diógenes Castillo is acting with nepotism, naming his sons and close relatives to posts in OMSA with high salaries. He said that the payroll of OMSA has increased 150% regarding what he inherited from former director, Ignacio Ditrén, of the PLD administration. He said under Ditrén OMSA employed 2,000 employees and now there are 5,000 on the payroll. He mentioned that the Máximo Gómez corridor now has 26 inspectors, most not doing anything, where before there were five. He said most of these employees cannot justify their post. He spoke of the "botellas lujosas" that the OMSA director has created to benefit 250 union leaders. Many of the new recruits are getting paid salaries of RD$25,000 a month. "What is true is that if I am the owner of a service company, and I sell these services to OMSA and at the same time I am administrator of OMSA, and I sell diesel, oil and if I buy and sell wholesale, it is also good business," he told El Siglo newspaper. He repeatedly complained that Castillo, a former president of the country’s ill-reputed Fenatrado trucking union, has turned OMSA into an employment agency for his family members. He commented to explain the irregular situation: "If I have my whole family, and the relatives of my family and turn the government agency into an employment agency or an institution at the family’s service Then I sell the spare parts for the OMSA buses" He also denounced that Castillo was removing buses from the OMSA corridors to send them on special services to the interior, competing with private bus companies. He complained that the executives of the organization want to have the control of passenger transport in the capital city and that of truck cargo transport in the rest of the country.
