The Public Ministry confirmed this Friday that the body found earlier, inside a camp in Maipú, corresponds to Ronald Ojeda Moreno, a retired lieutenant of the Venezuelan Army who lived in Chile as a political refugee and was kidnapped nine days ago in Independencia. .
Shortly following reporting the arrest of a first suspect in the kidnapping, prosecutor Héctor Barros, who is in charge of the case, announced that “we can finally, based on the tests that were carried out, confirm that the remains correspond to Ronald Ojeda.” , who had been a victim of kidnapping.”
“The approximate date of death – according to the Demecri doctor (Department of Criminal Medicine of the PDI) – is between seven to ten days, therefore, it also coincides with the dates on which the kidnapping occurred,” added the pursuer
In turn, the prefect inspector Catalina Barría, national head of Crimes once morest Persons of the civil police, added that the body was buried 1.40 meters deep, and therefore its extraction took almost the entire followingnoon.
“The cause of death will be established in the Legal Medical Service through the autopsy,” the detective concluded.
Previously, prosecutor Barros noted that the remains were buried “in a cement structure, and that the police finally managed to find inside a suitcase.”
In that same spokesperson, the prosecutor stressed that “this is a complex investigation, linked to organized crime and therefore we have deployed and carried out a series of procedures that have led us to the result we have had today.”
So far, three arrest warrants have been issued once morest individuals identified as alleged perpetrators of the kidnapping of the former military man. The only one captured for now is a 17-year-old Venezuelan with an irregular immigration status.
The trail of Ronald Ojeda, who escaped at the end of 2017 from a prison in Venezuela and went into exile in our country, was lost in the early hours of Wednesday, February 21, when four hooded individuals pretending to be police officers entered his apartment and captured him. .
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