{"id":68406,"date":"2015-10-08T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T21:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=68406"},"modified":"2015-10-08T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T21:51:14","slug":"ministry-suspends-francis-lorenzo-from-un-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/10\/08\/ministry-suspends-francis-lorenzo-from-un-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry suspends Francis Lorenzo from UN mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ministry of Foreign Relations has announced the suspension without pay of deputy ambassador to the United Nations Francis Lorenzo. Lorenzo is accused of complicity in a major international bribery scandal involving Chinese nationals and former UN Assembly president John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Relations says the suspension would remain in effect until a judicial sentence is issued on the case. The Ministry of Foreign Relations confirmed that Lorenzo had been in the Dominican diplomatic service since 3 September 2004. <\/p>\n<p> The Ministry says that the case presented by US prosecutors does not affect the Dominican government, as the accusations are linked to personal activities carried out separately from his job at the Dominican UN mission. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"p5YAq0bnzB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/2015\/actualidad\/8289588-gobierno-suspende-a-francis-lorenzo-el-embajador-acusado-de-corrupcion-en-la-onu\/\">Gobierno suspende a Francis Lorenzo, el embajador acusado de corrupci\u00f3n en la ONU<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#171;Gobierno suspende a Francis Lorenzo, el embajador acusado de corrupci\u00f3n en la ONU&#187; &#8212; Acento\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/2015\/actualidad\/8289588-gobierno-suspende-a-francis-lorenzo-el-embajador-acusado-de-corrupcion-en-la-onu\/embed\/#?secret=p5YAq0bnzB\" data-secret=\"p5YAq0bnzB\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Relations has announced the suspension without pay of deputy ambassador to the United Nations Francis Lorenzo. Lorenzo is accused of complicity in a major international bribery scandal involving Chinese nationals and former UN Assembly president John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Relations says the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/10\/08\/ministry-suspends-francis-lorenzo-from-un-mission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}