On Monday, 8 April 2019, a National District court resumed the preliminary hearing in the case of those accused of the death of the lawyer and university professor, Yuniol Ramirez. Ramírez had been investigating corruption at the OMSA.
Those accused are Manuel Rivas, ex-director of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (OMSA); Faustino Rosario; José Antonio Mercado Blanco (El Grande); Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián (El Taxista); and Eddy Rafael Santiago Zorrilla Víctor. Still overseas in the United States is another accused in the murder case, Argenis Contreras González.
Yuniol Ramírez was kidnapped in the UASD on 11 October 2017 and his body was found in the Manoguayabo River in Santo Domingo West, weighed down with concrete blocks.
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9 April 2019