“Miguel, no”was what the assistant Érika Herrera could hear behind the door of the minister’s office Orlando Jorge Merafollowed by the six shots that took his life.
Even with the pushy and aggressive attitude with which he broke Fausto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota, the confessed murderer, in the facilities of Ministry of Environment last Monday, June 6, Orlando Jorge Mera allowed interaction with him, without security in between.
This is his childhood friend, who enjoyed his confidence. According to the file, the accused constantly visited the Ministry without an appointment and requested to be attended by the minister. He carried a trail of abuses against the Environment staff, even Jorge Mera came to call his attention on some occasion, but this, according to the file, believed he had the right to rule in that institution under the argument that “it had to be resolved and that it was not being given the attention it deserved.”
That Monday he arrived at the ministry with the arrogance that characterized him, dressed in a dark blue jacket where he had his firearm hidden. Dice the Public Ministry, who went to the scene with every intention of killing Jorge Merahis friend from over 40 years ago.
Cruz de la Mota went to the office of the National Director of the Environment, and hit Alfonzo Mendoza on the forehead, continued with the aggressive attitude to the office of Minister Jorge Mera, who asked him for a few minutes to end the meeting he was holding with several collaborators.
The security had appeared up to the fourth floor, but the defendant questioned his presence, when Jorge Mera concluded his meeting, he asked to be alone with his friend.
“The Minister stood at the door of his office and told the security officer Nicolás Montero and the ladies Erika Herrera and Carmen Maribel Peralta: ‘Miguel is my friend, Miguel is my brother, he is my brother, for what security”.
In this way, the minister is left alone with his executioner, behind closed doors. Establishes the record “A few minutes after having entered into a conversation with Minister Orlando Jorge Mera, without discussion between them, he executed his plan to assassinate the Minister of the Environment.”
The coercive measure request document indicates that the accused shot him six times, including wounds from a distance of contact.
The Public Ministry pointed out that it carried out the murder because the deceased today refused to grant him environmental permits. He cited 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 applied for a permit to export used batteries. Despite its rejection, it had reintroduced the request from Aurum Gavia SA
“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.
“I campaigned and they did not solve me”, It was the constant complaint of today’s defendant. This Thursday is the appearance of him before a judge of the Office of Permanent Attention, the Public Ministry will request his preventive detention in a penitentiary.