Nine persons accused of participating in the irregular sale of government property were sent to the Najayo and Victoria jails yesterday. The former director of Bienes Nacionales, Victor Tio Fernandez, and other department officers, Jorge Encarnacion Matos and Freddy Vargas were sent to Najayo. Eladio Emilio Alonzo, Jose Manuel de Jesus Villaman, Lorenzo Rodriguez, Sandino Grullon and Samuel Dario Nunez were sent to La Victoria. Tio Fernandez told Hoy newspaper that his arrest was a political trap. "In the DR there are only three parties: the PLD, of the "come-solos" (eat-alones); the Reformistas that are "come-siempre" (eat all the time), and the PRD, which we are "come-M" (eat-S). According to Tió, "Everytime the PRD people are in power, we eat each other."
