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Article: Fraud Trial Will Go On, Judge Tells Dominican Media Mogul.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- April 28, 2004
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By Jane Bussey, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 28--A judge in Santo Domingo has upheld a series of fraud charges against one of the Dominican Republic's most powerful financial leaders, sending the case, which stemmed from the calamitous 2003 collapse of the country's third-largest bank, to criminal court for trial.
Judge Eduardo Sanchez Ortiz issued a long-awaited ruling upholding charges of bank fraud and other irregularities against Ramon Baez Figueroa, a media titan and the former president of Banco Intercontinental, or Baninter, and Marcos Baez, the bank's executive vice president.
The judge, however, ...