The Third Court of Instruction for the National District has issued a demand before the office of the prosecutor for the Attorney General of the Republic to a formal accusation against the defendants within the next 15 days in the Yuniol Ramírez murder case. Judge Amauri Marcos Martinez Abreau, who presides over the court hearing the case, issued the court order after taking into consideration the fact that in December of 2018 the prosecutors were given an extension of two months to conclude their investigation and prepare their accusations in this murder case and they have yet to do so.
The judge said that if the prosecutors do not present a formal accusation within the time granted by the court, and there are no requests or injunctions from the parties, the judge could close the criminal case due to the poor performance of the prosecutors, according to Art. 151 of the Penal Process Code.
Yuniol Ramirez was murdered shortly after he denounced in public major corruption going on in the OMSA government bus agency.
Within 24 hours, the spokesperson for the Attorney General of the Republic told reporters that in the coming week, at the latest, they would present a formal accusation against those person indicted in this case. Julieta Tejada, the spokeswoman for the AG’s office, said that it must be remembered that the case had been moved from the province of Santo Domingo to the jurisdiction of the District Attorney of the National District. As a result, the DA had to go over every single piece of evidence in the case, down to the most minute detail, since the case was declared to be “complex.” She assured the reporters that next week they would be depositing in the court, the documents and the formal accusations. The alleged killer, himself, is still in New York City awaiting extradition.
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Diario Libre
El Nacional
4 March 2019