The Third Court of Instruction established on Wednesday, 29 August 2018, that 18 September will be the beginning date for the preliminary process against the persons indicted for the death of the lawyer and university professor Yuniol Ramirez Ferreras. The case had first been heard in the province of Santo Domingo.
Last 14 August, the coordinating judge for the Courts of Instruction in the National District, José Alejandro Vargas, assigned by means of a random drawing this case to the Third Court of Instruction of the National District. That court will now carry out the preliminary hearings involving persons indicted for this murder. Involved in this case are the former director of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Service (OMSA) and several other officials of the transportation entity. Readers might remember that the Second Penal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the province of Santo Domingo declined to hear the case and referred it to the National District, but the files were returned to the former court because they had not been delivered in their entirety to judge Vargas.
The lawyer and university professor was kidnapped and murdered. His body was found in October 2017 with a single gunshot wound to the head and tied to two concrete blocks in the bottom of a creek in West Santo Domingo. He had been investigating administrative corruption at the Omsa at the time of his death.
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El Nacional
30 August 2018
