An audit carried out at the Dominican Port Authority by the Department for the Prevention of Corruption (DEPRECO) during the Mejia Administration revealed that the then director of the Port Authority and current senator, Anibal Garcia Duverge, had managed to place 31 of his family members on the PO’s payroll. The audit also found that in two months, November and December 2001, RD$288.3 million was spent to purchase fuel. The report further tells how between August 2000 and December 2001, the personnel working for the Port Authority tripled using nine payrolls with 3,450 fixed personnel and 1,800 temporary employees. The payrolls added up to RD$28 million a month. Among the highly questionable activities discovered in the audit was the 2% payroll deductions were being made from PRD party members that supposedly totaled over RD$4.8 million but it is not clear the money reached its destination, the PRD treasury. Apparently, there were 24 small buses leased to transport Port Authority workers, but there is no record of six of the buses even existing. Of course, the startling increase in expense accounts also made the auditor’s eyes go wide open. In 1999 the personal expenses for the Port Authority totaled RD$193 million. In 2001 the total was over RD$400 million.