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03-04-2010, 02:40 PM
El Dia reports that Major General Vinicio Hernandez Mendez was a member of the commission that investigated the killing of the two alleged kidnappers of Eduardo Baldera Gomez, son of a Nagua exchange house owner. Eduardo Baldera Gomez was "kidnapped" in his hometown of Nagua on 18 September 2009 and "escaped" from his captors 22 days later, explains the newspaper.
Hernandez Mendez's removal coincides with the promotion to colonel of Alberto Trejo Perez, who led the police team accused of the alleged murder of Cecilio Diaz and William de Jesus Batista.
A report by the commission under Hernandez had established that the two men were murdered, and were not killed in crossfire with the Police, as chief of the Police Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda Rancier have claimed.
The Prosecutor General Office had issued a report on the kidnapping of Eduardo Baldera Gomez concluding that alleged kidnappers William de Jesus Bautista Checo and Cecilio Diaz were murdered by the members of the Police who had arrested them. The commission under Hernandez had recommended that those involved in Bautista Checo and Diaz's murders should be prosecuted. Trejo Perez commanded the team that Hernandez held responsible for the murder. Others on the alleged execution team were policemen Jesus Rafael Tejada Tejada, Franklin Santana Martinez, Jose Luis Peralta Valentin and Catalino de Jesus Perez.
Residents in Villa Vasquez in Montecristi told the investigating commission that the men had been arrested alive and that there are videos that show them boarding the Police vehicle.
The Human Rights Commission was critical of the fact that the Prosecutor General Office report did not provide the names of the masterminds behind the crime, on the understanding that the police officers were following orders from their superiors.
www.pidhdd.org/content/view/1478/1/ (http://www.pidhdd.org/content/view/1478/1/)
www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2009/11/12/301748/Cierran-casas-de-cambio-de-los-Baldera-en-Nagua-y-Samana (http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2009/11/12/301748/Cierran-casas-de-cambio-de-los-Baldera-en-Nagua-y-Samana)
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Hernandez Mendez's removal coincides with the promotion to colonel of Alberto Trejo Perez, who led the police team accused of the alleged murder of Cecilio Diaz and William de Jesus Batista.
A report by the commission under Hernandez had established that the two men were murdered, and were not killed in crossfire with the Police, as chief of the Police Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda Rancier have claimed.
The Prosecutor General Office had issued a report on the kidnapping of Eduardo Baldera Gomez concluding that alleged kidnappers William de Jesus Bautista Checo and Cecilio Diaz were murdered by the members of the Police who had arrested them. The commission under Hernandez had recommended that those involved in Bautista Checo and Diaz's murders should be prosecuted. Trejo Perez commanded the team that Hernandez held responsible for the murder. Others on the alleged execution team were policemen Jesus Rafael Tejada Tejada, Franklin Santana Martinez, Jose Luis Peralta Valentin and Catalino de Jesus Perez.
Residents in Villa Vasquez in Montecristi told the investigating commission that the men had been arrested alive and that there are videos that show them boarding the Police vehicle.
The Human Rights Commission was critical of the fact that the Prosecutor General Office report did not provide the names of the masterminds behind the crime, on the understanding that the police officers were following orders from their superiors.
www.pidhdd.org/content/view/1478/1/ (http://www.pidhdd.org/content/view/1478/1/)
www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2009/11/12/301748/Cierran-casas-de-cambio-de-los-Baldera-en-Nagua-y-Samana (http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2009/11/12/301748/Cierran-casas-de-cambio-de-los-Baldera-en-Nagua-y-Samana)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)