The judge of the fourth investigative court of the national district issued an order to open a trial against seven people involved in the death of professor and lawyer Yuniol Ramírez, which took place on October 12, 2017 and in the corruption scandal within the Metropolitan Bureau of Buses. Services (OMSA).
Judge Solange Vásquez, during the hearing of the reference for a preliminary ruling, ordered the defendants to respond to the charge against them before a trial on the merits, in which case the lead author Argenis Contreras is in pre-trial detention pending the preliminary ruling.
The court ordered the release of the financial director of the Office of Metropolitan Services (OMSA), Faustino Rosario Díaz, after imposing the payment of a bond of 4 million pesos, impediment to exit and regular presentation. This defendant was under house arrest.
Likewise, the judge ordered the release of the accused Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián (Taxi Driver), after imposing a guarantee of 50 thousand pesos, impediment to exit and regular presentation.
The court ordered them to send the case to the trial of Abreu Fabián and Rosario Díaz, former OMSA director Manuel Rivas, José Antonio Mercado (El Grande), Víctor Elizander Ravelo Campos (El Herrero), Heidy Carolina Peña, Argenis’s wife Contreras and Lilian Francisca Suárez Jáquez.
Vásquez, in his decision, considered that there was sufficient evidence against the accused, for the association of criminals and murder against Professor Yuniol Ramírez and the concealment of the body.
The judge made the decision, after accepting the opinion presented by the special prosecutor for the persecution of administrative corruption (PEPCA), who took the case, after removing the case from the national district prosecutor, Rosalba Ramos.
On October 12, 2017, the lawyer’s body was found with a chain around his neck tied to a block of flats in a stream in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo Oeste. The lawyer was last seen at the academy around 1:00 p.m.