With a photographer and security personnel in position, as can be seen in one of the videos provided as evidence by the prosecution bar of the Ombudsman the arrival of Pablo Ulloa to the Vehicle Retention Center better known as “El Coco Dog Track” on April 11, 2022, the scene in which he was allegedly attacked by the staff of the General Directorate of Traffic Safety and Land Transport (Digesett) bet on said police custody space.
This video, among those that were contributed by the Ombudsman lawyerswould have served as a fundamental point for the court’s considerations against the prosecution bar itself.
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In that sense, Bunel Ramirez Meranlawyer for the colonel Ysabelita de los Santos Perezassured that the videos provided show that Pablo Ulloa did not comply with the protocol for access to the police custody area.
“The videos provided show that Ulloa did not observe any protocol, did not ask anyone for permission, went through the main door without any control and with a drone filming it,” he explained. Ramirez Meran.
“His own images of him were taken to realize that he violated the provisions of the law”said the lawyer.
In addition, the lawyer stated that the judge also accepted other evidence provided by the defense to support the innocence of the alleged aggression against the Ombudsman in April of last year.
It should be noted that Law 19-01 establishing the figure of the Ombudsman in the Dominican Republicdescribes the protocol that this Constitutional body must follow so that a higher-ranking public official deliver the documentations that are requested and the procedure when seeks to hinder the delivery of these.
“Article 23- Likewise, the Ombudsman must notify the act that admits to the corresponding administrative unit so that the highest-ranking official responds within a period not exceeding fifteen (15) business days. The official may appear voluntarily before the Ombudsman and offer explanations about the action carried out in his office. PARAGRAPH.- In the event of failure to comply within the aforementioned term, it is considered that the functions of the Ombudsman are being delayed and obstructed”.
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“Article 27- In the event that an official refuses to collaborate with the Ombudsman or does not provide the required documentation or reports, the Ombudsman will inform the immediate superior of the investigated official; also to the public prosecutor, in order to submit the official to justice action under charges of violation of article 234 of the Dominican Penal Code”.
No Place Act
The judge of the First Investigating Court of the National District, Raymundo Mejía, issued this Thursday an Act of No Place in favor of the Digesett colonel, Ysabelita de los Santos, for the incident registered at the Vehicle Retention Center.
Mejía pointed out that the criminal types of which the officer was accused were not as Ulloa’s lawyers had proposed.
Likewise, the aforementioned were favored with the disposition of the judge Geraldina de los Santos Pena, marisol vargas, Ronny Recio Rosario Y Carlos Oliver Borque Paulinowho were not found to participate in the facts that are accused of the Public ministry and the complaining party.
while they will go on merits Nataniel Javier and Starling Ramírez Sierrafor allegedly violating article 309 of the Penal Code.
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Role of justice
Bunel Ramírez Merán, lawyer for the colonel Ysabelita de los Santos Pérez, stated that with the opinion of the magistrate of the First Investigating Court of the National District, Raymundo Mejía, “the judge was legitimized and justice was legitimized”.
In that same order, the veteran jurist retracted any “accusation that we have made, believing that it would not be impartial.”
The words of Bunel Ramirez to journalist from newspaper TODAY Digitalarise in the context raised in November 2022 in which magistrate Raymundo Mejía was challenged due to the friendship he has with Roberto Quiroz, first substitute of the Ombudsman and part of the accusing bar in the Canódromo case.
“Contrary to our opinion at the beginning of the process with respect to the fact that the judge would not be impartial and that we believed that he would give a decision attached to the friendship that unites him with Dr. Roberto Quiroz, who is part of the ombudsman’s office, the judge demonstrated the opposite and gave a decision that was absolutely in accordance with the law, demonstrated impartiality and we salute the judge’s positive attitude,” Ramírez Merán told this outlet.
