Pubdate: Wed, 27 Dec 2006
Source: Dominican Today (Dominican Republic)
Copyright: 2006 Dominican Today
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4101

DRUGS CZAR CONFIRMS TRAFFICKERS EASILY GET DOMINICAN IDs

SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Drugs Control Agency  (DNCD) today
confirmed that it has arrested drug  traffickers with up to 4 cedulas
(ID cards) and that it  investigates several cases along with the
National  Investigations Department (DNI).

DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebrn, speaking for the  entity's president
Rafael Ramirez said however, that in  those cases it has determined
the narcotics  traffickers' true identity, to file charges agaisnt
them.

The DNCD's statement comes one day after Central  Electoral Board (JCE
president Julio Cesar Csataos  denounced that international
narcotics traffickers and  criminals obtained cedulas and passports
from the  Offices of the Civil Registrar by supplanting other
peoples' birth certificates.
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