Santo Domingo, RD.
The National District Fourth Judge of Investigation referred the decision to open the trial to those involved in the 2017 murder of university professor Yuniol Ramírez.
The court has postponed the hearing of the decision until March 12 at 10 a.m. The hearing was to take place in the Fourth Investigating Court, but due to space issues, it took place in the Third Collegiate Court courtroom. The opening of the trial ended at 5:30 p.m.
Carlos Salcedo, attorney for Manuel Rivas, former director of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services, assured at the end of the court that the prosecution was speechless in the answers and counter-answers, claiming that each of the actions Rivas took was out in OMSA based on what the law offers.
On the other hand, Ramón Ramírez, who is the professor’s brother and takes the case of his relative, reiterated that it does not do justice that Rivas, Faustino Rosario Díaz, who was the financial director of OMSA and Eddy Rafael, has been removed from the file Santana Zorrilla.
The main defendant in this case, who is said to be transferred to the Dominican Republic in the coming days, Argenis Contreras, is awaiting trial so that the corresponding sentences can be passed.
Contreras is said to have left the country claiming his life was in danger because he is aware of all the details and participants in the conspiracy in which Ramírez was murdered. He was arrested in the United States on April 21, 2018.
The following are involved in the murder of Ramírez: Heydi Carolina Peña, wife of Argenis Contreras; 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.
On October 12, 2017, the body of also lawyer Yuniol Ramírez 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 previous day.
After hearing of the disappearance and subsequent murder of Ramírez, a version was woven about him that he allegedly tried to extort money from Manuel Rivas, who was imprisoned with the Colonel of the National Police and who was also an accountant with that government body. , Faustino Díaz.
Rivas and the former financial director were separated from the murder and charged with corruption against the state. Both were released on August 4, 2020, after the national district’s fourth investigating judge amended the bail bond.