After four years and ten months of airing in court the death case of the university professor Yuniol Ramirezdue to alleged allegations of corruption in the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (Omsa), the judges of the Second Collegiate Court of the National District Claribel Nivar Arias, Yissel Soto and Clara Sobeida Castillo issued judgment against the eight involved.
Argenis Contreras was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder of Yuniol Ramirez. He will serve prison in Najayo jail.
the judges they downloaded to the former Omsa administratorManuel Rivas.
The full reading of the sentence will be on October 20.
While, in favor of Victor Ravelo Campos and of Jose Antonio White Marketalias El Grande, was released from prison and released.
Against wife of Argenis Contreras, Heidy Carolina Peña, the court said that complicity in the murder could not be determined and she was discharged.
Equally, Lilian Francisca Suarez Jaquez Y Jorge Luis Abreu Fabian (El Taxiista) were discharged due to insufficient evidence.
The court was unable to determine complicity in the case of those mentioned.
Omsa case
In relation to the case of corruption in the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (Omsa), to the financial manager of the entity, Faustino Rosario Diazaccused of complicity to commit bribery and illicit enrichment and money laundering, He was sentenced to one year in prison.
In relation to the former director of Omsa, Manuel Rivas the court rejected his involvement in bribery and he was cleared of all guilt.
As ruled by the court, Rivas could not be shown association to commit irregularities of prevarication and embezzlement of funds in the Omsa.
The Public Ministry in its accusation linked the death of the university professor, which occurred in October 2017, with the alleged acts of administrative corruption that occurred in Omsa, which was directed by Manuel Rivas since August 2012.
A Argenis Contreras was shown to be the material author of the kidnapping and murder of lawyer and university professor Yuniol Ramírezwho was found dead with a concrete block tied to his neck by means of a chain in a stream in Hato Nuevo, in Santo Domingo Oeste.
After the fact, narrated the Public Ministry, Argenis Contreras he fled to the United States, where he was captured and three years later handed over to the country.