The confessed murderer of the Dominican Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Mera, told the Public Ministry the reasons why he shot the official. The statements were partially released on Wednesday in a statement.
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Miguel Cruz, a childhood friend of Jorge Mera, appeared at the ministerial offices around 11:00 am on Monday morning and there he had a meeting with the National Director of the institution, Juan Manuel Cuervo, who realized that The defendant was very upset.
“I campaigned and they didn’t solve me,” he told Cuervo, before going up to the minister’s office, angry because the company Aurum Gavia SA, under investigation, “I had requested permission to export 5,000 tons of used batteries. But it had been rejected”narrates the document.
Even “this situation caused him to threaten the ministry’s legal consultant, Edilio Segundo Florián, less than a month ago,” the text reads. After making him wait because he was in a meeting, the minister stated that he did not need security to receive Cruz.
“He’s my friend, he’s my brother,” said Jorge Mera, who immediately ushered the accused in and was left alone with him around noon.
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A few minutes later, Cruz, without discussion, “fired six shots at the victim, including distance and contact wounds,” an action that shows “typical behavior of a cold and calculating murderer” and that it was a planned crime. .
Cruz, then, cold-bloodedly murdered Minister Mera because he was not granted a permit to export used batteries.
What did you do after the murder?
After murdering Jorge Mera, Miguel Cruz left the Ministry of the Environment through the main door and took refuge in a church where he handed the gun to the priest, to whom he confessed that he had killed someone, although he did not specify who.
Hours later, and after speaking on the phone with Deputy Attorney General Yeny Berenice Reinoso, he turned himself in to the authorities, after receiving guarantees that they would not make an attempt on his 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 carried a suitcase with money and documents, that indicate that he had the intention of escaping once he committed the act.
In the accused’s vehicle, the authorities found a 9mm caliber weapon with two magazines with 30 capsules each, as well as a briefcase with four magazines with a capacity for 30 capsules, two 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 requested the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District the imposition of preventive detention against the accusedfor which coercive measures will be known this Thursday.
The Dominican Republic is shocked by the death of the minister, who this afternoon received a final goodbye at the headquarters of the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), of which he was one of its founders, and was later buried in a cemetery in the capital.
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