The brother of murdered university professor Yuniol Ramirez, Ramón Ramírez Ferreras says that the judges of the Second Collegiate Court of the National District ruled according to the evidence presented in court by state prosecutors. The judges ordered a 20-year sentence at Najayo Jail to Argenis Contreras, former financial officer at the Metropolitan Bus Authority (Omsa). Argenis Contreras was sentenced as the main material author of the crime.
Ramirez’s brother complained the ruling was correct given that despite the change in the heads at the Attorney General Office, the prosecution practically kept what their predecessors had carried out and did not add new evidence to the case.
This resulted in the single sentencing to Contreras, with the acquittal of all others initially mentioned in the case.
The court sentenced Argenis Contreras González to 20 years in prison for the murder of lawyer and university professor Yuniol Ramírez Ferreras and for extortion from the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (OMSA).
Meanwhile, Faustino Rosario Díaz, who was director of purchasing at the OMSA, was sentenced for corruption offenses to one year in prison and to pay the costs of the process, in addition to being disqualified from holding public office for a period of five years.
Former OMSA head Manuel Rivas, Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián (the Taxi Driver), Heidy Carolina Peña (wife of José Antonio Mercado Blanco (the Great) and Víctor Ravelo Campos were acquitted and the coercive measures they were serving for their involvement in the case were terminated.
The murder was committed in October 2017 and is linked to acts of administrative corruption that occurred in the government bus company under Manuel Rivas since August 2012.
The victim, Ramirez Ferreras, was president of the National Convergence of Lawyers (CONA) that investigated corruption at the OMSA. Ramirez Ferreras’ corpse was found with a concrete block tied to his neck by a chain, in a creek in Hato Nuevo, in Santo Domingo Oeste.
After the murder, Argenis Contreras fled to the United States, where he was captured and three years later to stand trial.
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12 September 2022