Prosecutors investigating the assassination of the environment minister, Orlando Jorge Mera, point out that Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota (a) Carandai went with the intention of killing his childhood friend to the not having obtained permit approval environmental regulations for the export of used batteries. In this case, the authorities are investigating the company Aurum Gavia, SA, given that the defendant had original documents in his possession with which the permits were requested.
“The company had requested a permit to export five thousand tons of used batteries, but it had been rejected but had been reintroduced, the evidence shows that the accused had been trying to be granted multiple permits, but he complained angrily that they did not solve anything for him”, says a document deposited in court yesterday followingnoon.
The authorities call for the imposition of one year of pretrial detention once morest the accused. The Permanent Attention Court of the National District will hear the request today, at 9:00 in the morning.
The investigation indicates that the accused had threatened, less than a month ago, the legal consultant of the Ministry, Edilio Segundo Florián Santana
Cruz de la Mota is being held in the preventive prison of the Ciudad Nueva Palace of Justice awaiting transfer to court for the hearing.
shot him 13 times
The instance of coercion measure establishes that the murderer shot Jorge Mera 13 times, six of the shots hit the official’s body, in his ministry office.
He maintains that Cruz, a few minutes following having entered into a conversation with Jorge Mera, Without discussion, he executed his plan to assassinate him.with six distance and contact wounds.
The multiple shots fired at the Minister hit different parts of the body, causing his death due to gunshot wounds to the head, face, front and back chest, and left hand, causing hemorrhage, contusion and laceration of brain mass, according to the record of body removal No.61610 of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF).
The accusation points out that this is a criminal action that shows typical behavior of a cold and calculating murderer and he shot him several times, an action that is evidently the murder of an official for carrying out his work within the framework of the law.
threatened the legal
He adduces the instance that the accused complained angrily that they did not solve anything. This situation caused him to threaten the ministry’s legal consultant, Segundo Florián Santana, less than a month ago.
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The criminal left on a motorcycle
After committing the crime, Cruz left the Ministry with a calm typical of one who has engaged in planned criminal conduct and not being able to get out in his vehicle, he boards a motor vehicle in the vicinity of the Ministry and addresses the Church Jesus Christ High and Eternal Priest, of the Renaissance sector.
Before leaving the Ministry, the accused called his daughter Miguelina Alfonsina Cruz Gomezbut in view of the security measure, the young woman was prevented from leaving the facilities in her vehicle.
He closed the office to commit the crime
In its request for a coercive measure once morest Miguel Cruz for assassinating Minister Orlando Jorge Mera, the Public Ministry determined that the member of security Nicolás Montero tried to open the door of the Minister’s office, but It was closed inside so he proceeded to turn around to enter through another access door.
This situation was taken advantage of by the murderer to leave the office by stairs since he knew that this route was safer for his purposes of escaping from the crime scene.
Montero proceeded to enter the Minister’s office, finding the body lying on the floor and bloodied and immediately informed the other members of the security by radio to arrest the accused, but in the midst of all the confusion and desperation that was created and before Evident security flaws, before and following the factthe defendant went unnoticed in the crowd, managing to escape from inside the Ministry of the Environment.
According to the indictment, the facility for access to the Minister was a fragile point for his security, matter that people close to him had warned him regarding.
He points out that these people told him that he harmed interests and that he might not continue with that work scheme in which even when he traveled to the interior of the country to visit, he did not like to travel with the security that those visits required.
