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Argenis Contreras and Yuniol Ramirez / El Día

The Second Collegiate Court of the National District announced the merging of the case of the murder of the lawyer Yuniol Ramirez and that of administrative corruption in the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (OMSA) during the administration of Manuel Rivas. The Public Prosecutor’s Office had requested the unifying of the two cases. Prosecutor Mirna Ortiz explained that the accusations, witnesses and victims are the same. She explained that the case was divided when key suspect Argenis Contreras left the country. Now Contreras is back and expected to testify in court.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses Argenis Contreras of responsibility in the kidnapping and murder of the lawyer and university professor Ramirez Ferreras. A UASD university professor, Ramírez was investigating corruption at the Omsa...