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The Applicant alleged that his due process rights were breached and that the sanction was not proportional. Upon review, the Tribunal considers that the Respondent correctly established the facts but did not fully take into account the mitigating circumstances. The sanction applied is therefore too harsh and is modified by the Tribunal. The contested decision is rescinded and the Applicant is to be reinstated. The disciplinary sanction of separation from service with compensation in lieu of notice and without termination indemnities applied to him is replaced with the sanctions of a written censure, demotion of one grade from grade G-6 step X to G-5 step X with deferment for three years of his eligibility for consideration for promotion starting from 4 April 2011 until 4 April 2014. Due to the presence of exceptional circumstances, the Tribunal saw it fit to award the Applicant more than two years net base salary in compensation. The Respondent is ordered to pay the Applicant partial compensation for loss of earnings according to grade G-5 step 10 retroactively from the date of his separation—4 April 2011—until the day of his effective reinstatement. In the event that the Respondent decides not to reinstate the Applicant, he is ordered to compensate him in the amount of USD5,000 and two years and eight months’ net base salary as a reasonable equivalent payment for the damages produced by the rescinded decision, at the rate in the effect on the date of the Applicant’s separation from service on 4 April 2011.