The Customs Department (DGA) has announced it will not be prosecuting several children of officials in the former Fernandez administration who had been accused of Customs fraud worth more than RD$100 million. DGA director Fernando Fernandez says the case was costing legal fees. “We sent the case to the courts, we removed the employees who had failed from Customs and submitted the evidence. If the prosecutors want to continue with the case, they are under their obligation and duty to do so, but Customs has not recovered a cent of these funds as would have been our objective in this case,” said Fernandez. He denied that the decision had been made to protect the children of fellow political party members and said that if pursuing the case would have made it possible for Customs to recover the RD$100 million it was cheated of, then the institution would be continuing the case. “For us it does not make sense. The prosecutors can pursue it and take it to the final consequences and if they can find the RD$100 million that is being mentioned and return it to the treasury, congratulations, because we have nothing to find there” he said, as reported in Diario Libre.
www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2013/11/22/i412099_aduanas-caso-justicia-hijos-exfuncionarios-aportaba.html