The file with which the Public Ministry requests the imposition of preventive detention against Fausto Miguel de Jesus Cruz de la Motaaccused of murdering the Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Meraspecifies that he arrived angry on Monday, June 6, at the Ministry of the Environment because the agency denied him a permit to export damaged batteries.
“I campaigned and they did not solve me”, were some of the phrases that preceded the tragic outcome.
Miguel Cruz It carried a trail of abuses against the Environment staff, reviews the document instrumented by the Public Ministry. The investigation of the prosecuting agency reports that “the accused constantly attended the Ministry, where he showed up without an appointment and in an arrogant and imposing manner pretended to be attended by Jorge Mera.”
The file even highlights that Jorge Mera came to call attention to him for the mistreatment of the staff, but the accused believed he had the right to rule in that institution under the argument that “he had to be resolved and that he was not being given the attention it deserved.”
The Public Ministry cites as one of the disagreements of the accused the denial of the permit that was made to the company under investigation Gold Gavia, SA
According to investigations by the prosecution body, this company had requested a permit to export five thousand tons of used batteries. Despite its rejection, Aurum Gavia SA had reintroduced the request. This document had Miguel Cruz in his power.
“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 and even this situation caused him to threaten the Ministry’s legal consultant, Edilio Segundo, less than a month ago. Florian Santana.
Murder
Last monday, Miguel Cruz took advantage of the trust that the deceased Jorge Mera had in him to enter the Ministry of Environment violating all security protocol.
According to a statement from the Public Ministry, Cruz de la Mota, 56, committed the act in Jorge Mera’s office and then fled to the Church of Jesus Christ, High and Eternal Priest, located in the Renacimiento sector.
Once in the temple, the man handed over the weapon with which he committed the crime and confessed that he had killed a person. He later reported that it was his childhood friend, the Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Mera.
The minister would have received six shots from the illegal weapon Taurus brand, caliber 380, series KXL44043, which was carried by his childhood friend.