DOJ includes Ruby Rose uncle-in-law in slay case

The new Department of Justice leadership has recommended the filing of charges against Navotas City shipping and fishing magnate Lope Jimenez, uncle-in-law of Ruby Rose Barrameda-Jimenez, who was killed in 2007. On Thursdsay, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima announced she had overturned the resolution issued by one of her predecessors, Agnes Devanadera, who cleared Jimenez of involvement in Ruby Rose's Mafia-style killing. "In this resolution, I granted the partial motion for reconsideration of spouses Robert and Asuncion Barrameda [to include Lope Jimenez as one of the suspects]," said De Lima. The new resolution indicting Jimenez was promulgated last Wednesday. Robert and Asuncion Barrameda are Ruby Rose's parents who asked to include Lope Jimenez on the charge sheet. De Lima likewise announced she had sustained Devanadera's resolution that ordered the filing of murder charges against Ruby Rose's husband, Manuel Jimenez III. Thus, Manuel Jimenez III and uncle Lope Jimenez are now included in the charge sheet in the murder case pending at the Malabon City Regional Trial Court Branch 70. GMANews.TV tried to reach the Jimenez camp for comment, but it could not be contacted as of posting time. Last year, Ruby Rose’s body was fished out of Navotas waters inside a cement-sealed steel container. Witness Manuel Montero had confessed he was among those who were paid P50,000 each to kill Ruby Rose on March 12, 2007. Montero said the order came from Ruby Rose's father-in-law, Manuel Jimenez Jr. and his younger brother Lope, owner of Buena Suerte Jimenez Fishing and Trading Co., the property where the steel drum containing Ruby Rose's body was found. — RSJ, GMANews.TV