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Local June 7, 2013 | 3:37 pm

Odebrecht contract illegal: Dominican Republic watchdog group

Santo Domingo.- A prominent watchdog group on Friday rebuked the hiring, without a call for tenders, of the Brazilian giant Odebrecht to rebuild the Navarrete-Puerto Plata highway, at an estimated cost of several hundred million dollars.

The affirmation by the Justice and Transparency Foundation (FJT) comes one week after the Public Works Ministry canceled the contract with the company VI... Read more