A DR1 brief on the government intervention in the Aster cable company yesterday erroneously named Codetel as a leading Aster shareholder. The relationship between Codetel, a Verizon company, and Aster was of a strategic business alliance, through which Codetel supplied Aster with Internet access and fiber optic lines, for which Aster paid a fee. Patricia Zorrilla of the legal department of Codetel said that the contract formalizing the alliance was never signed, despite the relationship being amply publicized locally at the time of the launching of the service last year. Aster is a Baninter Group asset taken over by the authorities, under Article 9 of Law 72-02 of the asset laundering legislation.