translated from Spanish: 95% impunity and 300,000 cases lagging

The office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), replaced last January by the attorney General, ended collapsed. Its most basic function, investigating and resolving offences, did not fulfil it in 95% of the cases that asked.
Nor filled out more than 21000 warrants of apprehension Turned by judges against possible criminals, and Left in the backlog 300,000 open records Without any kind of resolution.
An official diagnosis also found possible facts of corruption in the institution, unjustified purchases or with surcharges (including that of A luxury aircraft capable of transatlantic flights) and disorganization in key areas such as police and experts. For these events, internal audits have already begun which could lead to accusations against the exfunctionary.
This is the main results of the evaluation presented by the attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero on the occasion of the first 100 days of its management, which are framed within the period of one year that the prosecutor has to design a plan that allows Transforming the former PGR into a fully functional autonomous General prosecutor’s office.
Below Political Animal It details the main findings of the report presented by the Attorney General as well as the first actions being put in place. It also announced the forthcoming presentation of a package of reforms aimed at accelerating the justice system and favouring the repair of damage. Including the creation of A new Penal code where there prescribe felonies.
Impunity, lag and disorganization
According to the report, the PGR left an “unjustified backlog” of more than 300,000 preliminary inquiries and open research folders without any result. This situation was favored by the lack of control and no monitoring of the progress of the allegations, and by a terrible distribution of cases to Have MP agents who had each one thousand open records, while others had not assigned a single investigation.
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This also explains the fact that Just 5% of all matters processed ended in a final sentence. In other words, 95% of cases ended up unpunished.
“There was no control over the maximum time to integrate the investigations, nor to identify delays in the previous inquiries and folders, so that the complaints could remain months or years, without being determined” the analysis points out.
In addition, 21000 arrest warrants by federal judges were not completed by the PGR Ministerial police, as well as three thousand opinions straggling from the area of expert services.
To address this situation, the prosecutor said that a unique model of Parts officer was launched to meet each case in a standardized manner and an analysis of workloads was launched to redistribute the Rezag more efficiently. or matters.
“From May all the activities of the Public Ministry in research and process folders shall have the name and surname of the person responsible for evaluation. A program of operation and follow-up of criminal action was created to detect delays and deviations, “said prosecutor Gertz.
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Political Animal He asked the prosecutor to know an estimated date to reduce the backlog of the 300,000 open records but did not specify it.
Policemen who do not investigate and “administrative anarchy”
The diagnosis showed that the PGR had 4000 elements of the federal Ministerial police, a figure that is insufficient for the workload. The situation is worse if you take into account that near 800 of these elements were not used to investigate Or to complete court orders, but As an escort of officials, exfunctionists, politicians, among others.
Political Animal It published in October last year that the PGR had lost half of the agents with whom it came to count to investigate crimes.
The diagnosis emphasizes that in the unit there was a “clear administrative anarchy” with non-priority areas with excess of person underutilized or wasted, while there were others with “serious shortage of personnel”. There was what qualifies as a “disproportionate number of high-ranking official” and numerous eventual plazas for unclear purposes.
To try to reverse these problems the prosecutor said that 320 police officers assigned as escorts have already been reinstated to investigative work and the same will soon be done with the rest.
On the other hand, more than 1,000 high-level squares were removed categorized as “useless or unjustified” and were relocated to public servants in priority areas of victim care and research.
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Dubious purchases: overcosts and possible corruption
The report details that there was no control over the current authorized expenditure for the institution which “applied in a anarchic way and with an obvious waste on unjustified or useless expenses in multiple concepts, from per diem to the acquisition of Various goods. ” This also favored possible acts of corruption.
For example, it was identified that in October 2013 the PGR acquired an aircraft Bombardier Challenger 605 Transcontinental with a price of 19.5 million dollars, when its real price indicated in systems of international valuation was of 15.5 million. This added to its dubious utility for functions of the Attorney general.
Was identified An investment of more than one billion pesos Between 2013 and 2015 to acquire, operate and maintain unmanned aircraft (DronesBy direct adjudications, without studies that justify their need No results reports to measure their effectiveness In research tasks.
In addition, the PGR had a land fleet of more than 4000 vehicles, many of them armoured units for “use of high officials and their relatives.” And also the unjustified sale of six buildings owned by the institution that ended up being used for other purposes, injuring the patrimony of the same.
“Public security costs were applied irrationally and suspiciously, without adequate supervisory mechanisms, which caused the budget to be exercised in discretionary and inexplicable matter,” the report said.
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Among the actions taken to reverse this point was announced The reduction of 74% of the entire air flotea of the PGR consisting of 35 helicopters and 17 aircraft. Aircraft that are used only for substantive tasks were retained.
“And in cases of millionaire purchases of aircraft and drones without justification, or at high prices, administrative and technical audits have been initiated to the contracts, analysed their costs and legality. The contracts for the acquisition of armoured vehicles are also being reviewed in order to determine if there are irregularities, “the report says.
New Criminal Code with felonies not prescribe
The report submitted by the Prosecutor supports the need to change the structures of the country’s justice system in a “permanent and irreversible” manner. The foregoing through a package of legal reforms that will soon be submitted for consideration by the Congress.
Among them was announced the project of a new national law of Culture and Civic justice whose application is in a phase of previous and that according to the diagnosis would help to prevent more serious criminal conducts, in addition to favouring a quick reparation Of the damage and therefore an expeditious justice.
Another of the projects that are being prepared is aimed at creating A new Penal code for the country that, among its innovations, establishes that serious crimes do not have a prescription date To favor their combat. It was not specified whether it would be a single penal code for the whole country or only at the federal level.
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Original source in Spanish