The Punta Cana Group is insisting that land occupied by a company, which has among its shareholders the current District Attorney, was never turned over voluntarily nor were they part of payment of honorarium to a law firm, according to the terms of the contract signed with the Hernandez Peguero legal office. According to Listin Diario, the tourist consortium says that the land under litigation was never occupied irregularly and thus, there was no eviction performed by the Hernandez Peguero firm, as they claim. Punta Cana Group explaines that those lawyers were not hired by them to perform an eviction of land occupied illegally, and the contract established that payment of honorarium would be made immediately by the delivery of approximately 75 hectares of land to be located upon common arrangement no further than 500 meters from the road that leads to the project. (See DR1 Daily News 30 September 2005)