The director of the Oficina Metropolitana de Servicios de Autobuses (OMSA), Diógenes Castillo, admitted to Hoy newspaper that OMSA is sourcing maintenance from a company he owns. He says this is with authorization of the President of the Republic. He said that OMSA called a tender and no other companies bid for the contract. He also admitted that he has employed eight of his relatives, not 32 as denounced by Juan Hubieres, a transport union leader who has accused Castillo of turning the public transport division into his own family business. Salvador Sanchez, director of Communications of OMSA, says that Hubieres has publicly accused Castillo after the later refused to pay the union leader RD$252,996,000 of a contract with several transport organizations the later had signed with the past government.