Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito announced yesterday that he was sending the files relating to the alleged fraud at the Naval Yard in Las Calderas, Bani, to the DEPRECO office. The case involves some RD$232 million and came to light during an audit by the General Accounting Office. Dominguez Brito warned that if DEPRECO can prove the irregularities, the Justice Department would submit the case to the courts. The accusations are against three companies, CIRAMAR, S.A., CIRAMAR International Trading and ANABALCA who supposed acted in collusion with Naval officials regarding a contract to refurbish and repair the Floating Dock DF-1. In paid spaces in most of today’s press, company representatives allege that the audit was poorly done. The statement from the “Astilleros Navales Bahia Las Calderas, C. x A.” ANABALCA, says that they are in “complete disagreement and that they reject the “unfortunate, precipitated and unjust decision…” The companies go so far as to say that the audit would not stand up to “the most basic professional scrutiny” and, in fact, it had been preceded by another audit that was highly questionable and that led to firings within the GAO. They promised to go to the courts to have the accusations dropped.