SANTO DOMINGO.- The Peravia province (south) Instruction Court notified the accusation against Jose Luis Montas (El Duro Motors), one of the main defendants in the murders at Paya, Bani, who criticized the acquittal of ex Police major Frederick Medina Abud despite being in his words "a key piece" in the case, and who called himself as a "scapegoat.”

Montas, accused to hatching and funding the plan to execute the seven Colombians in the village Ojo de Agua, was taken to the court, where he affirmed that "I should be released with Medina Abud."

He accused the investigators of not releasing the documents on the Paya case, in which he describes himself as a "scapegoat."

The court set a hearing for May 14 when it will decide if the case merits a criminal trial against the 25 military and civilians accused of the August 4, 2008, slaughter, which the prosecution affirms resulted from a rip-off of 1,300 kilos of cocaine brought to the country from Colombia, and cash said to be as high as US$13 million.