2023-08-30 18:05:41
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The Internal Affairs prosecutor has directed the cases once morest Juan Francisco Sandoval, Siomara Sosa, Claudia González, Paola Escobar, Aliss Morán, Eduardo Pantaleón, Stuardo Campo, Leily Santizo, Virginia Laparra, among others.
By Community Press
The name of the fiscal agent of the Internal Affairs Prosecutor’s Office, Noé Nehemías Rivera Vásquez, has sounded in different actions of the Public Ministry in recent days. He is in charge of directing criminalization cases once morest actors who investigated cases of grand corruption in Guatemala.
Rivera had been questioned regarding the case he investigated and that kept former prosecutor Virginia Laparra in prison, who was jailed more than a year ago and is currently facing a sentence for having denounced former judge Lester Castellanos.
Rivera Vásquez is a lawyer graduated from the University of San Carlos. Although little is known regarding the fiscal agent so far, in recent days he has been linked to the group of prosecutors led by Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who have managed cases once morest justice operators.
Rivera Vásquez has led the cases once morest Juan Francisco Sandoval, Siomara Sosa, Claudia González, Paola Escobar, Aliss Morán, Eduardo Pantaleón, Stuardo Campo, Leily Santizo, Virginia Laparra, Erika Aifán, among others.
In addition, the prosecutor has a blog in which he speaks out in favor of human rights. In this he defines himself as a speaker, social critic and defender of workers’ rights.
Participation of the prosecutor in the case of Virginia Laparra together with Lesther Castellanos
The Internal Affairs prosecutor has been absent from the latest hearings for prosecutors who hope to resolve their legal situation for cases initiated in that investigation unit. In processes such as those of Pantaleon, Morán and Escobar, his absence caused the suspension of the proceedings and means that the cases are delayed.
The most recent was the process of the lawyer Claudia González, who was arrested last Monday, but the prosecutor asked that the first statement be postponed for not being prepared to charge the facts, meanwhile, she is still in custody.
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Claudia González, the lawyer who confronted the system to defend criminalized justice operators
Persecution directed at justice operators
Before Rafael Curruchiche’s arrival at the Special Prosecutor’s Office once morest Impunity (FECI), the Internal Affairs Prosecutor’s Office was already used as a tool to direct cases once morest people who investigated actors linked to corruption cases.
The first case that arose from that unit of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) was the one filed once morest former Attorney General Thelma Aldana and members of her team, who were issued an arrest warrant for the purchase of the office building for the investigative entity. in zone 5 of the city.
From that prosecutor’s office, the complaints filed once morest prosecutors such as Rafael Curruchiche, Consuelo Porras, Pedro Hernández, Cinthia Monterroso, among other MP workers who are presumed to have committed different crimes, have been ignored.
Participate in events with the complainant of Virginia Laparra
Rivera Vásquez, in charge of the Laparra case, has been seen participating in academic events together with the complainant of the case that he himself is directing once morest Virginia Laparra. In the activity he has participated together with Lester Castellanos, now rapporteur of the National Office once morest Torture.
Participation of the prosecutor in the case of Virginia Laparra together with Lesther Castellanos
Met with complainant
Separately, last May, the legal team of former assistant anti-corruption prosecutors Paola Escobar and Aliss Morán, following they were sent to preventive detention, announced legal actions once morest the prosecutor in charge of the case.
The defense of the justice operators publicly denounced that a photograph was sent to them anonymously in which the prosecutor in charge of the case, Rivera Vásquez, is observed meeting with the accused of corruption and whistleblower, Dennis Herrera Arita and his brother.
Herrera Arita was prosecuted and accused in the Parallel Commissions 2020 case, and also, he was the one who denounced the former prosecutors for allegedly pressuring him to testify in the process that was ongoing once morest him.
Meeting between the prosecutor and complainant of Aliss and Paola
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