United States authorities ordered the deportation of Argenis Contreras, accused of being the material author of the death of lawyer and university professor Yuniol Ramírez Ferreras.
This occurs after a court rejected an appeal brought by the accused against the decision ordering his deportation to the Dominican Republic, claiming that his life in the country would be in danger because he knows all the details. and participants in the conspiracy in which Ramírez was murdered.
It has been reported that Contreras will be brought to the country in the coming hours to answer for the charges brought against him, whose preliminary hearing will be held by the judge of the fourth investigating judge of the national district. The person charged with the death of Ramírez Ferreras was arrested in the United States on April 21, 2018, on the basis of an arrest warrant obtained against him by the prosecutor of the Dominican Republic.
The international police (Interpol) has issued an arrest warrant against Argenis Contreras since October 2017 under official letter number 2017/254847. Also involved in Ramírez’s murder are Argenis Contreras’ wife, Heydi Carolina Peña; José Mercado Blanco (El Grande), Víctor Elisander Ravelo Campos (“El Herrero”) and Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián (“DJ and El Taxista”), accused of covering up Argenis Contreras and trying to destroy evidence in the case. Former director of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (OMSA), Manuel Rivas, and Colonel Faustino Díaz were charged in connection with the case.
On October 12, 2017, the lawyer’s body was found with a chain tied around his neck to a block in a stream in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo Oeste. The lawyer was last seen at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) around 1 p.m. the day before.
The crime
After hearing of the disappearance and subsequent murder of lawyer Ramírez, a version was woven about him that he allegedly attempted to extort the then director of OMSA, Manuel Rivas, who, along with Colonel of the National Police Faustino Díaz, who was also an accountant, was imprisoned. in that state agency.
Both Rivas and Díaz were released on August 4, 2020 after the national district’s fourth investigating magistrate changed the coercion for bail. Rivas paid 4 million pesos and Colonel Díaz had to pay 8 million.