The deputy solicitor Wilson Camachohead of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Persecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) responded to statements offered by the brother of the murdered lawyer Yuniol Ramirez in which he assured that most of those accused in his death were released because the Public Ministry allegedly acted in complicity with them, covered them up and did not present evidence that compromised their criminal responsibility.
To this, camacho He said that “the Omsa case is a case that the Attorney General (Miriam Germán) took up and that reaches Pepca due to a decision by the Attorney General at that time.”
He stated that this case “came accused” to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, therefore, a case when he is accused governs the principle of immutability of the process and the only thing that the Public Prosecutor’s Office has the obligation to do is defend “that case tooth and nail and that It’s what they’re doing.”
He added that the persecuting body awaits the court’s decision (full reading October 20) to act accordingly as they always have.
Dissatisfied with the decisions of the judges of the Second Collegiate Court of the National District, camacho He expressed that in the Dominican Republic the cases must be overtested so that they are strong.
Ramón Ramírez, brother of the ill-fated professor, Yuniol Ramirez He had affirmed that the 20 years to which Argenis Contreras was sentenced was due to what his brother’s case represented in society.
“We always maintained that this was a corrupt, cover-up and criminal accusation, made with the sole purpose of covering up all those who murdered Yuniol; the sentence is proof of that,” he said.
He added that the sentence imposed on Argenis Contreras was thanks to society, “because we are aware, and we said so from the beginning, that there was not even a murder weapon in the file.”
Ramírez assures that the accusing body was in charge of putting a legal weapon in the accusatory file against those indicated in the case. The weapon was found in the residence of Argenis, according to the Public Ministry.
In addition to Argenis Contreras, the financial director of Omsa, Faustino Rosario was sentenced to one year in prison.
The same court discharged the defendants Manuel Rivas, former director of the Metropolitan Bus Service Office (Omsa), Heidy Carolina Peña, wife of Argenis Contreras; Jorge Luis Abreu Fabián (The Taxi Driver) and Lilian Francisca Suárez.
He also downloaded José Antonio Mercado Blanco (El Grande) and Víctor Ravelo Campos.
