The lawyers of Spaniard Erik Padrón Montilla urge prosecutors to continue investigating the case of the murder of two Dutch citizens, Rachid Benbouker and Cuma Ceviz in a suspected drug related operation in El Seibo province. All indicates that there has been a poor police investigation with the focus on the wrong person so that the case is not resolved, say the lawyers.
Padrón Montilla is a real estate broker now immersed in the murder case after having served as the middlemen for the lease of a villa where the murdered Dutch stayed as well as two men from Curacao that are suspect to be the murderers and are fugitive. An El Seibo judge will request pre-trial detention for Padron.
Defense lawyers Eduardo Jorge Prats and Miguel Valerio have said that the police authorities are trying to cover up the crime. “We make this statement given that the evidence deposited for the pre-trial detention do not tie Padrón to the crime,” they said in a public document.
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El Caribe
3 July 2017
