The hearing lasted approximately 50 minutes, during which the interim judge of the Fourth National District Investigation Court, Kenya Romero, Argenis Contreras, the main defendant in the death of the lawyer and Professor Yuniol Ramírez, placed a year in protective custody in October. 2017.
Security officers of the New Penitentiary Management Model transferred the suspect at 10:29 a.m. from the Ciudad Nueva Preventive Prison, located on the fourth floor of the Palace of Justice, to the Ninth Criminal Chamber, where the measure was known. the third floor. The hearing ended at 11:19 am.
At the speed with which the hearing was held, the no objection of the defendant’s defense contributed to the preventive detention requested by the prosecutor. “ We are not going to oppose it because the Prosecution is asking for protective custody and, for the sake of the accused, we need it in a safe place, and now the best thing is that it is in a safe place. place is. place, ”Argenis’s lawyer, Plutarco Jáquez, said before the hearing.
All parties were satisfied with Judge Kenya Romero’s coercion.
“A year in jail is fine,” said Yuniol’s brother, Yuniol, lawyer Ramón Ramírez, who represents the victim’s family, when he agreed to the decision.
The head of the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA), Wilson Camacho, was of the opinion that the court was correct according to the prosecution’s proposal.
Argenis will comply with the restraint at the Najayo-Hombre Correction and Rehabilitation Center, in San Cristóbal, where, in his attorney’s opinion, he “will have every guarantee that his life will have no problems”.
On March 19, at 9:00 am, the judge ordered the start of the preliminary hearing, which will be responsible for the fourth investigating judge of the national district, who will be responsible for determining whether or not to open the trial.
A week earlier, on March 12, the National District Fourth Investigating Judge will also announce the verdict of the prosecutor’s request to open a trial to the other accused of participating in the murder.
Heydi Carolina Peña, wife of Argenis; José Mercado Blanco (El Grande), Víctor Elisander Ravelo Campos (“El Herrero”) and Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián (“DJ and El Taxista”), accused of hiding Argenis and trying to destroy evidence.
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The crime.
The body of lawyer Yuniol Ramírez was found on Oct. 12, 2017, with a chain tied around his neck to a block in a stream in Manoguayabo, Santo Domingo Oeste. For the fourth consecutive day, Argenis Contreras was questioned in the Attorney General’s office for the murder of Yuniol Ramírez in 2017.