The Supreme Court of Justice confirmed the 30-years jail sentence issued by the First Collegiate Court of the National District to former president of the largest truckers association in the country, Fenatrado. The court ordered that Blas Peralta remain in jail for the murder of former rector of the UASD state university, Mateo Aquino Febrillet. The decision was taken by the judges of the Penal Hall of the Supreme Court of Justice.
The court also confirmed that Peralta pay RD$7 million to each of the three offspring of Aquino – David, Jonathan and Jessica Aquino, and another RD$10 million to Rita Solis, the wife of the murder victim.
The ruling was not unanimous. Judges Miriam Germán Brito and Juan Hiroito Reyes dissented, saying that the case should have been categorized as a homicide and not a murder.
Peralta’s lawyers have said they will appeal the case in the Constitutional Court.
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El Caribe
Diario Libre
16 October 2018
