The national district’s fourth investigating judge will resume hearing this Friday on the request to open a trial against those involved in the murder of lawyer and university professor Yuniol Ramírez Ferreras, whose lead author Argenis Contreras is expected to enter the country. the next few days.
The hearing will take place at 10:00 am in court on the second floor of the Ciudad Nueva Palace of Justice.
The suspect in Ramírez Ferreras’s death was arrested in the United States on April 21, 2018, via an arrest warrant obtained against him by the Dominican Republic’s prosecutor and expelled after an appeals court dismissed an appeal.
On appeal, the defendant had alleged that he had ordered deportation to the Dominican Republic, claiming that his life in the country would be in danger because he is aware of all the details and participants in the conspiracy in which Ramírez became murdered.
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 previous day.
After hearing of the disappearance and subsequent murder of the lawyer Ramírez, a version was woven about him that he allegedly tried to extort the then director of OMSA, Manuel Rivas, who, along with Colonel of the National Police Faustino Díaz , who was also an accountant with that government agency.
Both Rivas and Díaz were released on August 4, 2020 after the national district’s fourth investigating judge amended the bail injunction.