The Participacion Ciudadana (PC) civic movement warned yesterday that President Leonel Fernandez has caused his anti-corruption policy to be questioned by appointing lawyer Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) – who is also main defense attorney for Ramon Baez Figueroa, responsible for the greatest banking fraud in all Dominican history – as Anti-Narcotics Advisor to the Executive Branch with the rank of Minister. According to Clave Digital, a statement signed by PC general coordinator Dr. Luis Scheker Ortiz says that this appointment places Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito in a difficult position. The AG has repeatedly expressed his intention of fighting corruption and seeking that the bank frauds receive proper punishment. Scheker Ortiz stated that this appointment places the justice department not only in the position of facing Baez Figueroa in court, but also of facing politically “a man who knows how to use the instruments of power and has the President’s unrestricted admiration and trust”. President Fernandez had stated recently that the founder of the PLD, Juan Bosch, and Vincho Castillo were his two political mentors. Scheker warned that it would be unethical for this high-level government official to put on his robes and go to court against the interests of the government for whom he officially works.