SANTO DOMINGO.- The Attorney for the Defense of the Environment and Natural Resources (Proedemaren) obtained a suspended six-month prison sentence against three men who were prosecuted for extracting caliche-type material without the corresponding environmental permit .
The Ninth Investigating Court of the Santo Domingo Judicial District handed down the sentence against José Manuel Rosa Amparo, Leónidas Amparo Rivas Martínez and Robert Esteverado Brea.
The court ordered that, to benefit from the suspension of the sentence, the three men must reforest with the planting of 200 plants in the Yaguasa river basins and pay a fine of three minimum wages, equivalent to 30,000 pesos.
If they fail to comply with these conditions, the defendants must exhaust the six months in prison.
The Public Ministry, represented by the court attorney Awilda Balbuena Olivo, attached to Proedemaren, managed to demonstrate in a hearing that Rosa Amparo, Rivas Martínez and Brea also violated the General Health Law 42-01.
The court issued the sentence on the suspended sentence after the three involved, by agreement with the criminal prosecution body, pleaded guilty to committing the crimes for which they were charged.
