The Justice Department will appeal today decision favoring Felix Bautista
Attorney General said it will be in the hands of the Judiciary to conscientiously decide
Diario Libre
SD. The Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito, announced that today an appeal would be filed for the purpose of having the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice revoke the decision of having no grounds to proceed (No Ha Lugar)and order the opening of a trial against Senator Felix Bautista and the other seven defendants for alleged corruption and money laundering.
He commented that in the challenge to the discharge of penal responsibility ordered by the judge of Special Instruction of the SCJ, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, there are two motives and elements that the Justice Department will highlight.
He cited that the first has to do with a well prepared process and the existence of sufficient proofs, "where the great number of assets and wealth that had been accumulated by the defendants was demonstrated."
He assured reporters that this huge wealth is constituted of property, money, airplanes and helicopters.
"In the same manner, it was well defended because the Constitution and the laws establish the reversal of the burden of proof; they could not prove how, in a legal manner, they obtained all these assets."
He said that it was proven that as a result of influence peddling and by operations of triangulation, with the assignment of projects in a mutual manner, they accumulated billions of pesos. "Are these are the elements that we intend to present, they were new elements, they were not investigated, they were not part of previous processes."
A second element underlined by the chief of the Justice Department is that which hits upon a call to the conscience of the Judiciary, warning that when the system of checks and balances and the rule of law loses its tools in order that it can be applied, democracy is destroyed.
He indicated that democracy rests upon the respect of the rule of law, the Constitution for all citizens, no matter that they are rich or poor.
"Everyone has to comply with what the law says." He warned the judicial system, that when this element is put aside, "what we are doing is destroying democracy."
He commented that in the challenge to the discharge of penal responsibility ordered by the judge of Special Instruction of the SCJ, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, there are two motives and elements that the Justice Department will highlight.
He cited that the first has to do with a well prepared process and the existence of sufficient proofs, "where the great number of assets and wealth that had been accumulated by the defendants was demonstrated."
He assured reporters that this huge wealth is constituted of property, money, airplanes and helicopters.
"In the same manner, it was well defended because the Constitution and the laws establish the reversal of the burden of proof; they could not prove how, in a legal manner, they obtained all these assets."
He said that it was proven that as a result of influence peddling and by operations of triangulation, with the assignment of projects in a mutual manner, they accumulated billions of pesos. "Are these are the elements that we intend to present, they were new elements, they were not investigated, they were not part of previous processes."
A second element underlined by the chief of the Justice Department is that which hits upon a call to the conscience of the Judiciary, warning that when the system of checks and balances and the rule of law loses its tools in order that it can be applied, democracy is destroyed.
He indicated that democracy rests upon the respect of the rule of law, the Constitution for all citizens, no matter that they are rich or poor.
"Everyone has to comply with what the law says." He warned the judicial system, that when this element is put aside, "what we are doing is destroying democracy."
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