Customs Department advisor Gregorio Lora criticized the weakness in the Dominican justice system yesterday, Wednesday 4 June. “This country is experiencing such high crime levels because there is no justice system,” he commented. He said that in a case where security forces uncovered 30,000 cases of whisky, a judge ordered 19,000 of the cases of whisky to be returned to the proven smugglers because they were not taken to court as evidence. In another case he said that it was established that four employees had been receiving checks irregularly from a leading company but their lawyers were able to postpone the hearing of the case until it expired, as reported in Diario Libre.