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~ 21/11/05

125 workers employed at the construction site of a new Wal-mart distribuition center near Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The workers were from Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and some used fake documents to obtain employment with subcontractors, officials said. The arrests came after search warrants were executed for six companies at the site.

Agents obtained the search warrants after learning that 10 workers employed by Destin Drywall & Paint were using Social Security numbers that did not match their names. Another three used Social Security numbers that were never issued by the government, according to an affidavit unsealed Friday at U.S. District Court in Scranton.

The Costa Ricans are expected to return this week to Costa Rica, if they are not held for using fake documents.

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Microsoft will file suit on 2 Costa Rican companies, one in Barva de Heredia and the other in Curridabat, that were searched by experts from the Registry of Author’s and Intellectual Property Rights. The suit will be for the illegal use and commercialization of Microsofts Windows XP and Office.  The Costa Rican companies did not pay $20,000  (¢98,6 millones) for licenses y original copies of the software.