Leading transport union director, Antonio Marte, denied having a personal fortune of RD$145 million as reported by the Justice Department during a hearing in the Plan Renove court case. The president of CONATRA said the information was distorted because accounts that are used to collect payments from beneficiaries of the Plan Renove are being assigned as his own. When asked about the real amount of his fortune, he stated he was not indigent but that doesn’t mean he has RD$145 million in the banks. He said he doesn’t have any liquid assets but he own more than one hundred buses. See DR1 Daily News 24 August 2005.