Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito yesterday revoked an order issued by his predecessor Victor Cespedes last 14 August that freed convicted drug trafficker Ormis Freddy Pena Mendez, and another that freed heroin trafficker Maritza Aquino, a woman convicted for carrying 129 packets of heroin in her stomach. Aquino, upon her release, was sent to the DNCD (local Drug Enforcement Agency) to have her case reviewed, where the unit’s legal consultant recommended her return to the Najayo prison, since her release was ordered during the government interim. With regard to the Pena Mendez case, Waldo Ariel Suero, the president of the Dominican Medical College, told El Caribe reporters that neither the Society of Endocrinologists nor the Society of Cardiologists had recommended his release for alleged medical reasons. Pena Mendez, a former vice-consul in Port-au-Prince, turned himself in yesterday to the office of the attorney general, who subsequently handed the cases to the Department for the Prevention of Corruption (DEPRECO) for further investigation. The attorney general also placed travel impediments on Cespedes and Alberto Atallah, a former Superintendent of Banks and Administrative Minister for the President. Another to have his travel rights suspended was former general and head of prison administration General Juan Caceres Urena for his role in the wrongful releases. On 19 August, with the new authorities in power, General Caceres Urena, as the former head of prisons, obtained Aquino’s release in accordance with the orders issued by Cespedes. In addition to the uproar caused by the Pena Mendez case, as reported yesterday in DR1’s News, the attorney general revealed that investigations have detected fraudulent alterations made to the list of pardons that was announced on 16 August, whereby individuals who had not been screened by the pardons commission were added to the list.