While the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) investigate the largest number of corruption cases in history, the Judicial Power Planning Department deems a specialized unit to be unnecessary.
A few weeks ago, the Full Court endorsed and supported the creation of a section in the OIJ, but the director Walter Espinoza lamented the technical opinion and described it as terrible, because new positions were rejected to the judicial police and the Public ministry.
We had the hope of a change, a turn, and in the end the situation is the same. We are worried that we detected a problem, a disease, the Court presented the cure or the recovery process that we could use, but in the end we can’t purchase it, even though the situation was visualized and it was verified as difficult,”
commented Espinoza, referring to the large number of complex cases being investigated now.
The director also said he understands there is a budgetary restriction and that the country has limitations, but said that they expected
a boost or push [because] the issue of corruption is in the forefront, it is important and it also affects the entire structure of the State.”