Miami, (AFP) – the exreina of Puerto Rican beauty Aurea Vazquez Rijos was found guilty on Wednesday by a court in San Juan on hiring the gunman who murdered his mill in 2005 onario Canadian husband. The judgment of Vazquez Rijos, who spent years fugitive in Europe, was scheduled for January 31 next year, told AFP the spokesman of the Prosecutor’s office, Dina Llovet.” I am very happy, this has been almost 14 years of agony and I believe that justice has been done”, he told journalists Abraham Anhang, the father of the victim, at the gates of the Court after the verdict.
The former beauty queen Puerto Rican Aurea Vazquez Rijos, main accused of the assassination commissioned by her ex-husband, Canadian businessman Adam Anhang Uster, was found guilty today of the events of September 22, 2005 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. #informando pic.twitter.com/5lBoJJXgrt— reporting (@InformandoRD7) 3 October 2018 in September 2005, Vazquez Rijos hired Alex Pabón Colón to kill Adam Anhang in Exchange for $ 3 million, according to the indictment from the Prosecutor’s office that d ATA 2008.Los 12 members of the jury also found guilty the sister of Aurea, Marcia, and his excunado José Ferrer Sosa, for facilitating the negotiation. Judge Daniel Domínguez ordered the immediate arrest of the two, said Llovet. Aurea Vazquez was already in custody. The trial in a US federal court in San Juan began on 21 August.
Vazquez Rijos was “financial gain” with the death of Anhang, with whom he had signed a prenuptial agreement to marry six months before ordering the murder. Anhang was a Canadian real estate developer with properties in Puerto Rico. According to court documents, at the time of his death he had an equity of $ 24 million.
“Shortly after getting married, Anhang Uster began to explore the possibility of divorce from the defendant”, says prosecutors in the indictment.
But, under the terms of the prenuptial agreement, the benefits that she would receive as a widow would be much higher than where they would get if he divorced. The Defense has said he will appeal the decision, reported the local daily the new Dia.segun the Prosecutor’s office, Vazquez Rijos summoned to dinner at Anhang to old San Juan to facilitate their work to the gunman. Nicknamed “Alex loco”, then the contract killer confessed killing Anhang on September 22, 2005, when the couple left the restaurant. It also hit the woman, to make the attack look like a robbery.
An indictment of the public prosecutor in 2013 which amended the text of 2008 said the sister and the excunado of Vázquez Rijos as co-authors of the murder. But the main defendant fled to Italy before the Prosecutor’s office issued the first indictment of 2008. There, according to the local press, he had two twin daughters, and set up a travel agency. The father of the victim, the Canadian lawyer Abraham Anhang, suspected it since his son died and dedicated himself for years to pursue it on his travels the world and watch it through private detectives, until you got to build the case for the FBI in Puerto Rico.
Finally the woman was arrested in Spain in 2013 and then extradited, a change that was not sentenced to death.
“We knew where she was all the time,” said Anhang father News Canada Global News a year after the arrest. “But we could not touch it.”
In October, 2015, the blonde exmodelo attended a court hearing in San Juan, where told the judge that he was 35 years old and that in Italy he had adopted the name of Aurea Dominicci.segun the Global News, Vazquez had won a Miss Puerto Petite contest.
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