The registrar of land titles, Wilson Gomez Ramirez, has denounced that he has pending 18 cases of irregular sales of government property. The Senate in turn announced it would return 26 contracts for the sale of property of the State Sugar Council (CEA). The announcements were made after television investigative journalist Nuria Piera denounced the scandalous sale of a 3,000 meter lot owned by the government for RD$5 per meter when the market value in that area is RD$2,000 per meter. Meanwhile, the government department in question, Bienes Nacionales, has been militarized and its director Victor Fernandez Tio and eight other department directors have been suspended from office as investigations take place. The beneficiary of the controversial government sale, Samuel Dario Nu?ez Gomez is a fugitive. His wife, nevertheless, returned the RD$3.5 million purchase price to businessman Edmon Elias Barnichta Geara. Bienes Nacionales had days sold N??ez the lot for RD$16,940.10 just days before.
