After several months of the murder of the television presenter Efraín Ruales New pieces appear in the process.
One of the detainees, alias Alvarito, in his version, he mentioned that there was a contractor, a man who contacted them. He identified him as Marcelo. He said he had contact in his neighborhood.
The plan, according to the defendant, was just scare the tv host, reported the channel TC.
“He gave me 70% of the pay the day before, which was $ 3,500, because the total value was $ 5,000,” said alias. Alvarito.
The television presenter Efraín Ruales was assassinated in the north of Guayaquil
The version of the defendant refers that Marcelo, the apparent contractor, got angry when he learned of Ruales’ murder, because supposedly the disposition was to scare the animator.
Alvarito, who was called to trial, maintained that the contractor is a man of about 35 years, medium height, thick build, and yellow hair.
Ruales was driving last January in his gray Ford Explorer car on the Guillermo Cubillo Renella street -apparently to take the Juan Tanca Marengo avenue- when attacked from a vehicle, apparently a blue and gray Gran Vitara. Wounded, the presenter advanced about 20 meters to stay in the middle of the track.
The presenter was going to his home in La Puntilla, Samborondón canton, after leaving training in a gym located in the Felipe Pezo Campuzano avenue sector. There he had come very early with his partner; the young woman was still in the gym when the attack took place.
Six people are on trial for this murder, including a woman. Some are as authors, co-authors and accomplices. A minor was involved, but his case was dismissed.
There are eight linked in the investigation for the crime of the presenter Efraín Ruales; each had a role but the mastermind is not found
Marcelo, the contractor, is not prosecuted by the prosecution. It is not yet known in this case who the mastermind was. (I)
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