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Argenis Contreras and Yuniol Ramirez / El Día

The brother of murdered university professor Yuniol Ramirez, Ramón Ramírez Ferreras says that the judges of the Second Collegiate Court of the National District ruled according to the evidence presented in court by state prosecutors. The judges ordered a 20-year sentence at Najayo Jail to Argenis Contreras, former financial officer at the Metropolitan Bus Authority (Omsa). Argenis Contreras was sentenced as the main material author of the crime.

Ramirez’s brother complained the ruling was correct given that despite the change in the heads at the Attorney General Office, the prosecution practically kept what their predecessors had carried out and did not add new evidence to the case.

This resulted in the single sentencing to Contreras, with the acquittal of all others initially mentioned in the case.

The court...