P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 971h
(a) The Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico shall have jurisdiction to impose penalties and to prevent violations of this chapter through appropriate orders, including but without being limited:
(1) To issue injunctions or quo warrantos;
(2) to order the repeal of any license, permit or authorization regardless of whether it is professional or for an occupation, or any other kind of business;
(3) to order the person to divest himself of any direct or indirect interest in any enterprise;
(4) to impose reasonable restrictions on the future activities or investments of any person, including forbidding him to participate in the same company or business in which he has been involved, or
(5) to order the corresponding administrative sphere to remove any employee, or the dissolution, reorganization or trusteeship of any enterprise to protect the rights of innocent persons.
(b) The Secretary of Justice shall institute the procedures under this section. In any action initiated by the Commonwealth under this section, the court shall proceed with full priority to the hearing and determination of said action. While the final determination of the matter is still unresolved, the court may issue any orders it deems convenient or take any other lawful action, at any time.
The court shall impose the costs and fees on the defendant.
(c) A conviction and final sentence in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in any criminal proceeding instituted by the Secretary under the provisions of this chapter shall prevent the defendant from denying the essential allegations of the criminal violation in any civil action filed subsequently by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(d) Any person who suffers an injury in his business or property as a result of a violation of the provisions of § 971b of this title may file suit in the corresponding court of justice and may recover triple compensation for the damages suffered, and the expenses incurred in the suit, including a reasonable sum for attorneys fees.
History —July 13, 1978, No. 33, p. 468, § 9; July 9, 1986, No. 84, p. 269.