Security & Strategic Review September 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Gauging the impact of corruption. Known cases of corruption in the Dominican Republic in the past 10 years have involved the misappropriation of about US$2.9bn, according to Hotoniel Bonilla, director of the department of prevention of administrative corruption (DPCA). He said that 95% of the cases remain unpunished because the legal system is weighted in favour of the powerful.
Of the total tallied by Bonilla, almost US$2bn was diverted in the fraud cases that led to the collapse of three banks in 2003. 'The political system,' he says, 'has great influence over the judicial system, including the public prosecution service, the police and all investigative agencies.'