Santo Domingo.- The Superior Land Court on Thursday upheldthe ruling which cancels property deedsissued to individuals for thousands of square meters of land in Bahia de lasAguilas.
Judges Manuel Alexis Read Ortiz, Pilar Jiménez Ortiz andCatalina Ferrera Cuevas ruled against 78 appeals filed against the rulinghanded down by National District Land Court 8th Chamber judge AlbaBeard Marcos.
State attorney Gedeon Platon and contracted lawyers LauraAcosta, Gustavo Biaggi Pumarol and Blas Minaya had motioned the court to rejectthe appeals.
After the hearing Acosta tweeted that her colleagues in theState’s defense team worked hard for the win, for a ruling that cannot beappealed since the Supreme Court had already heard it.
She noted that judge Beard had declared void all property transfers,transactions, surveys, subdivisions, consolidations and any operation since1990, year when the Dominican Agrarian Institute (IAD) then headed by JaimeRodriguez Guzman fraudulently issued 1,200 titles to around 600 alleged farmersfor lands located at Bahia de las Aguilas, southwestern Pedernales, where only iguanas and hardyweeds grow.