SANTO DOMINGO.- Police Criminal Investigations assistant director Jacinto Minaya said Monday the person who shot dead Army first lieutenant Guillermo Antonio Tejeda Krawinkel on March 3, 2008 has already been identified. “We’ve advanced the Tejeda Krawinkel case 80%. We’ve identified the person, but haven’t proven everything.”

Minaya said a commission periodically renders a report on the probe into the death of the official, assigned to the Drugs Control Agency (DNCD), and defended the Police’s investigation of the crime, committed in the busy street Padre Borbon, San Cristóbal (south).

“That’s a taboo, to detain the probe because of the personages that the investigation involves,” he said when asked why if the killing of seven Colombians in Peravia province was described as complex, that officer’s shooting death has been in fact much more difficult to decipher?

Tejeda Krawinkel was approached when he walked to his parked vehicle, by a man who later fled the scene in plain daylight.

Pedro Duarte Canaán, the lawyer who represents the officer’s family, affirmed that the powerful, active, senior military officers linked to drug trafficking are behind his death. “We’re going to have to defy extremely dark interests; behind the murder of that official hides the powerful hand of drug trafficking; it’s the powerful hand of active, high ranking military supported by personalities linked o politics.”