The governmental commission created by President Danilo Medina to review the reported legalization of property in Los Tres Brazos by a company that had received the concession from the government, recommended these contracts be annulled. Likewise, occupants of properties that had not yet done so should receive their titles directly from the state. The members of the committee were the legal advisor to the Executive Branch, Flavio Darío Espinal; José Dantés, director of the Permanent Commission of State Land Titling and Lidio Cadet, director of the Ethics and Governmental Integrity Agency (Digeig).
In a press conference, Espinal said that after a legal review of the documents supporting the contracts, interviews and meetings with representatives of the two companies that had received the concessions from Corde – Infelpa and Titulatec – and with representatives of Los Tres Brazos community organizations, the commission made several recommendations to the President including that to annul the contracts and the void the sales.
It was the commission’s conclusion that the original process to issue the concessions was carried out irregularly, in violation to the Constitution, the public enterprise law (Ley de Reforma de la Empresa Pública) and the public role law (Ley de Función Pública). The commission found that the negotiations of the contracts were not in the public interest.
The commission said that the state needs to guarantee the rights of those that legalized their status in good faith as w
ell as the financial intermediaries that financed a part of the purchases. It also establishes that the land titles should be issued for free or for a nominal fee depending on the socio-economic status of each of the land occupants.
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El Caribe
1 February 2017
