DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Argenis Contreras, a key man among those accused in the murder of lawyer and university professor Yuniol Ramírez Ferreira in 2017, is expected to be deported here from New York this Wednesday, 20 January 2021. While Contreras was arrested in the US in 2018, it was not until this week that a US court authorized his deportation.

It is suspect that Ramírez was murdered to impede him from releasing information he had on corruption at the Metropolitan Bus Company (Omsa), the government bus corporation. On 12 October 2017, Ramírez’s body was found with his neck chained to a block inside a stream in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo West.

It is known that Contreras took a flight from Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo to Miami on the same day of the murder. He was a fugitive of justice until he was arrested on 11 April 2018 in a migration action by US Immigration and...