The director of the Department for the Prevention of Corruption, Dr. Jesus Feliz Jimenez, said documents that would prove irregularities regarding the administration of Victor Tio Fernandez at the Direccion de Bienes Nacionales, the government division in charge of state property, have been destroyed. In turn, President Mejia fired Santiago Moquete as director of the National Land Deed Titling Plan. Tio Fernandez had been suspended for 30 days. Moquete had accused Tio of being the head of a major mafia at the department. Hoy newspaper in its page two commentary says that before the scandal erupted, Tio was about to be suspended by the President for complaints about Tio’s handling of the department. The newspaper says no one knows why the President changed his mind, but speculates that a high ranking officer of the PRD party intervened to prevent Tio’s firing at the time. Hoy newspaper reports that the registrar of deeds for the National District announced that the Supreme Court of Justice has ruled that from now on all sales of government property by way of proxies need to be certified by the Legal Advisor of the Executive Branch.
