The murder of lawyer, Yuniol Ramírez took another turn when the lawyer of Argenis Contreras, currently a fugitive, revealed that Ramirez was murdered by two supposed policemen in an SUV in the car park of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). Ramírez was investigating corruption at the government bus division, OMSA.
Lawyer Carlos Balcácer, said that the two supposed policemen were there to hand over three million pesos to Yuniol Ramírez, with the intention of then “bumping him off”.
He said that Argenis Contreras, who he said is in the United States, revealed that he was in a vehicle next to the SUV and he heard arguments and several shots. He said that Contreras also said that José Mercado Blanco “El Grande,” who is also accused of the crime, was not even there, and the authorities know that as there are videos of him between La Vega and Santiago at the time of the murder.
Balcácer said that Contreras would return to the Dominican Republic next week and would reveal the name of the person who sent the police to carry out the murder.
Having been questioned as to where Contreras is living, Balcácer would only say that he was in the United States and that the US authorities had carried out several raids to try and find him.
He drew attention to businessman, Eddy Santana Zorrilla, who had been the person involved in the negotiations and of whom he said “he is involved in this”.
Meanwhile the judge in Las Caoba set the date for the hearing about coercive measures against three new accused persons; Lucas Tobías Ortega Duarte, Víctor Elisander Raverlo Campos, alias “El Herrero”, and Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián, alias “DJ and El Taxista”, accused of covering up for Argenis Contreras and trying to destroy evidence in the case.
Those already in jail for the murder as coercive measures are Manuel Rivas, sent to jail for a year, having been director of the Metropolitan Office of Autobus Services (OMSA), José Mercado Blanco (El Grande), in the La Victoria jail ; Colonel Faustino Rosario Díaz of OMSA in the police jail for Special Operations in Manoguayabo.
Eddy Rafael Santana Zorrilla, spent a month in jail and now is out.
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Listin Diario
Listin Diario
10 April 2018
