The family of murdered lawyer Yuniol Ramírez Ferreras have again requested that the case be heard in the National District and not in the Santo Domingo West municipality. Santo Domingo West municipality was chosen because the corpse of the lawyer was found in a stream located there.
But the Ramirez Ferreras lawyers say that new evidence from the autopsy and a video showing the vehicle in which the victim was kidnapped leaving the UASD university premises with a shot in the window. The lawyer and brother of Ramirez, Ramón Ramirez told journalists that the request has been placed to the Sixth Court of Instruction of the Santo Domingo West municipality. The family says they are completely sure that Yuniol Ramirez was murdered by a gunshot to the head in the parking lot of the UASD.
The lawyer says they have also requested that assets of the accused be taken into custody by the state prosecutors.
In the murder case, the accused are the former director of the OMSA bus service; police colonel Faustino Rosario Diaz who was the financial director of the OMSA, and Jose Antonio Mercado Blanco (El Grande). Fugitive of justice and accused as the person who fired the shots that killed Ramirez is Argenis Contreras Gonzalez, who at the time was an assistant to Rivas at the government bus entity.
The prosecutors have shared the theory that Ramirez was killed because he was extorting Rivas with releasing information on corruption at the OMSA. Ramirez was carrying a legal case against Rivas.
Diario Libre two years ago had published a report on major corruption going on at the OMSA but this did not motivate the Medina administration to investigate or take action. Following the murder, now the Chamber of Accounts, in charge of auditing government entities, is taking a look into the finances of the organization.
13 November 2017
