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Local August 13, 2013 | 11:28 am

U.S.-funded Dominican group rejects release of most notorious jailed banker

Santo Domingo.- Just as former banker Ramon Baez Figueroa appeared to breeze through the procedure for his release on parole, the powerful civic movement Citizen Participation (PC) on Tuesday rejected his freedom and demanded that he serve out his full sentence of 10 years in prison.

It said the fact that Baez is the main culprit in the Baninter embezzlement which cost Dominican taxpayers... Read more