NCDN, Channel 37, has released the taped conversation between Argenis Contreras González and José Antonio Mercado Blanco (El Grande) supposedly after the murder of UASD law professor Yuniol Ramírez took place.
Contreras is accused by state prosecutors of firing the shot that killed the lawyer. In the taped conversation, Contreras expresses his confidence that all went well and that the only loose thread was a cell phone that got left behind where the body was disposed of. Argenis minimizes that where the body was left, a mobile was lost, saying that the phone was hardly used, albeit it was in his name. “If things continue as they are, all is perfect,” Argenis reportedly told El Grande.
El Grande asks about the pick up in which Yuniol Ramírez was murdered and where Argenis left this. Argenis responds that he sent it to a shop to get work done on it because too many people had seen it. He explains that the pick up would then be passed on to someone else.
Argenis also instructs El Grande to get RD$30,000 from his spouse, Heidy Carolina Peña.
Mercado Blanco told prosecutors he had been offered RD$100,000 to participate in the kidnapping of the lawyer.
Against Argenis Contreras González there is reportedly an international capture order. In his conversation with El Grande he says he has traveled to Miami, USA.
In the murder case under arrest is the cancelled director of the Omsa, Manuel Rivas, and the financial director of the Omsa, police colonel Faustino Rosario Díaz, in addition to El Grande.
Manuel Rivas, former director of Omsa, has denied his participation in any way in the murder of Yuniol Ramírez.
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19 October 2017
