Baninter US$2.5 billion fraud, which led to the world’s biggest bank collapse per capita

after five years the Supreme Court put an end to the proceedings that led to bank fraud convictions in the Baninter case, when it upheld the verdict against the main defendants. Dominican society kept close tabs during this long process to prosecute the Baninter US$2.5 billion fraud, which led to the world’s biggest bank collapse per capita, and put the country’s judicial system to the test.Central Bank legal consultant for banking fraud, Fidel Pichardo Baba, said the case’s result sets an historical precedent which fortifies the Judicial Branch and is also an example that justice must be equal for all. "This decision just now shows that it’s possible to condemn whoever commits a crime regardless of standing and that the very next day the sun rises at the same hour and the Earth doesn’t shake," Pichardo said of former Baninter president Ramon Baez Figueroa, and the executives Luis Alvarez Renta, Marcos Baez Cocco, and Vivian Lubrano del Castillo.