Argenis Contreras González, the lead defendant in the murder of attorney and university professor Yuniol Ramírez, is still being questioned by the Attorney General’s prosecutors today at 11 a.m., following a five-hour investigation yesterday.
Contreras González was repatriated from the United States and arrived at Las Américas Airport at 11:30 am, where he was met by the Chief of the Special Prosecutor for Administrative Corruption (Pepca), Wilson Camacho, who brought the arrest officer and aware of the charges against him.
The Public Prosecution Service has arrested the suspect in the preventive prison of the Ciudad Nueva Palace of Justice.
Plutarco Jáquez, Contreras González’s attorney, said his client is not the main defendant and will ask for new names to be added to the file in due course.
“The people who have already been included in the file, the Public Prosecution is going to weigh them, also that the people who have been excluded will be included again,” he said when he left his client’s interrogation with the Attorney General. Office.
“When he leaves the country, it’s because there are a lot of famous people, generals, colonels, politicians. We’re talking about heavyweights who can take someone’s head off,” said Jáquez, Contreras González’s lawyer.
The defendant had fled to the United States to evade legal proceedings for the kidnapping and murder of Ramírez Ferreras, as well as for the perpetration of alleged corruption. He is said to be the material author of the death of the attorney and college professor.
Interpol has issued an arrest warrant against him since October 2017 under official letter number 2017/254847. Contreras’s wife, Heydi Carolina Peña, was also involved in Ramírez’s murder; José Mercado Blanco (El Grande), Víctor Elisander Ravelo Campos (“El Herrero”) and Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián (“DJ and El Taxista”), accused of hiding the author and trying to destroy evidence on the case.
The former director of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (OMSA), Manuel Rivas, and Colonel Faustino Díaz, who was the financial manager of that entity, were charged in connection with the case.
IN POINTS
Pending.
On Monday, Camacho had stated that they had not forgotten the case that Contreras is accused of.
He explained that in that case they worked “slowly, but without pause” and with all those who have something to do with the issue of corruption.
When asked about the difficulty for which the United States has not yet extradited Contreras, Pepca’s chief asked to respect the decisions of the other authorities.
The arrest in the US.
Contreras was arrested in the United States on April 21, 2018, on the basis of an arrest warrant obtained against him by the Dominican Republic’s prosecutor.