The confessed murderer of the Dominican Environment Minister, Orlando Jorge Mera, committed the crime because the official did not grant him an export permit for used batteries, according to the file of the Public Ministry partially released this Wednesday through a statement.
Miguel Cruz, a childhood friend of Jorge Mera, appeared at the ministerial offices around 11:00 on Monday morning. There he held a meeting with the national director of the organization, Juan Manuel Cuervo, who realized that the accused was very upset.
“I campaigned and they did not solve me,” he told Cuervo, before going up to the minister’s office, angry because the company Aurum Gavia SA, under investigation, “had requested permission to export 5,000 tons of used batteries. But the same had been rejected, “says the document.
Murderer of minister threatened legal consultant
Even “this situation caused him to threaten the ministry’s legal consultant, Edilio Segundo Florián, less than a month ago,” the text says.
After making him wait because he was in a meeting, the minister stated that he did not need security to receive Cruz. “He is my friend, he is my brother,” said Jorge Mera. Who immediately made the defendant pass and was left alone with him around noon.
Very few minutes later, Cruz, without discussion, “fired six shots at the victim. Including distance and contact wounds. An action that shows “a typical behavior of a cold and calculating murderer” and that it was a planned crime.
walked out the front door
After murdering Jorge Mera, Miguel Cruz left the Ministry of the Environment through the main door. Later he took refuge in a church, where he handed the gun to the priest. He confessed to her that he had killed someone, although he did not specify who.
Hours later, and following speaking on the phone with the searcher deputy, Yeny Berenice Reinoso, turned herself in to the authorities following receiving guarantees that no attempts would be made on her life.
According to prosecutors, the accused went to the church for the sole reason of not being able to leave in the vehicle, parked in the ministerial offices, and in which he was carrying a suitcase with money and documents, which indicate that he intended to escape a once the deed was done.
assassin’s vehicle
In the defendant’s vehicle, the authorities found a 9mm caliber weapon with two chargers with 30 capsules each, as well as a briefcase with 4 chargers with a capacity for 30 capsules, 2 of which were complete, while another contained 11 bullets.
There were also several communications regarding the file of the company Aurum Gavia, SN, an envelope with 180,000 pesos and a high-end watch.
The Public Ministry solicitous to the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District the imposition of preventive detention once morest the accused, for which coercive measures will be known this Thursday.
The Dominican Republic is shocked by the death of the minister, who this followingnoon received a final goodbye at the headquarters of the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), which was one of its founders, and was later buried in a cemetery in the capital.
