2003News

AG favors RD$5-million bail for Lockward

Attorney General Victor C?spedes announced yesterday that in his view the imprisoned PRSC politician qualifies for bail, which he calculated at RD$5 million. Angel Lockward, a former Industry and Commerce minister, currently in preventive custody at the Palace of Justice in Santo Domingo’s Ciudad Nueva, is accused of RD$200-million fraud. Lockward continues to claim that his imprisonment is illegal.