The president of the Dominican Lawyers Guild (CARD), Miguel Surún complained that local judiciary authorized domiciliary arrest to the Tremols Group executives accused by the Tax Agency of more than RD$4 billion tax evasion.
“In any process a person is send to pre-trial custody when from any of the barrios, but when the process deals with a person of certain economic status then one sees that suddenly the same does not happen… Instead of retention, as requested by the Ministry Public, the accused are sent home. That sends a bitter message to all people who want a justice system that treats everyone equally,” said the president of the guild of lawyers.
In addition, he called on the representatives of the judiciary to apply drastically the legal provisions against these people, because our country is tired of the differentiation in judicial dealings between barefoot people and those who have power. “One hopes that in these cases the measures of coercion would be more drastic,” he remarked.
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Diario Libre
5 February 2019
