PRM legislator Waldys Taveras is warning that time is running out for the Attorney General to activate the case concerning fraud involving the property where the Duquesa garbage dump is located. If the Attorney General does not proceed with the corresponding accusations, the Dominican Republic could lose a US$300 million judgment to the prior operators of the dump, Lajun.
There is mounting evidence that proves the company’s claim to the land is fraudulent, but if the Attorney General does not follow suit, the Duquesa operators would practically win the suit placed by the company in a Florida court by default.
Taveras is the executive director of the secretariat for municipal affairs of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), the country’s leading opposition party. He said the country could be sentenced to pay US$300 million to Lajun if the persons involved in the irregular purchase of the land are not sent to justice. Lajun has taken the Dominican government to court for illegal dispossession of property in the international court.
Taveras is a former councilor for the National District. He reported he deposited at the Attorney General Office on Friday, 6 April 2018 an instance where he alleges that on 19 December the owner of Lajun had notified the President of the Republic, the Ministry of Industry & Commerce and the Attorney General Office of the start of the case abroad for alleged dispossession of private property.
Taveras recalls that on 26 December 2016, Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez had reported he had assigned a high-level commission to investigate the claim made by a legislator that the documents that were used for the alleged purchase of the Duquesa garbage dump lands were forged and that despite the passing of three years no results are known about the investigation into the irregularities in the purchase of State Sugar Council (CEA) lands for the garbage dump.
“There is no legal action by the State Sugar Council (CEA), the Attorney General of the Republic, Santo Domingo North City Council, the Chamber of Deputies, or the Senate of the Republic, powers and institutions of the state with the right to file legal actions for having been affected by the fraudulent actions,” he alerted.
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Diario Libre
11 April 2018
