SANTO DOMINGO.- The son of the assassinated Civil Aeronautics official Christopher Angel Martinez said that in his father’s briefcase were found several police files on the pilot Adriano Jiménez, disappeared in December in the Atlantic Ocean while he piloted an airplane headed to Mayaguana island, with 11 people on board.

Erick Christopher Martinez said that his father, Christopher Angel, had in his briefcase files on Jiménez that date from 1985, which show his criminal history. He showed copies of documents that he affirms were found in his father’s briefcase.

He said his father cancelled Jiménez’s pilot license after confirming that he was to trafficking with drugs and people. He said after the suspension, Jiménez appeared with two Air Force colonels to his father’s office, and openly threatened him in a frank challenge to his authority.

He said just weeks after that incident Martinez was assassinated.

The late official’s son questioned the fact that the Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) authorities didn’t provide protection for his father after that incident, and why those two colonels who appeared with Jimenez have yet to be identified.

He said asked the Armed Forces Ministry to conduct an investigation, on the fact that those active colonels served as escorts for an individual with a criminal history.

Interviewed by Huchi Lora in the program El Dia, Erick Christopher Martinez said despite that they’ve managed to identify one of the officers, who according to his information was designated in a strategic post in the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute.

He criticized the lack of quality of the commission recent appointed by the IDAC to investigate Jiménez’s disappearance, and that several of its members knew of his illegal operations since 2006, when Martinez rendered a report which led to the cancellation of his pilot’s license.