Arriaza Chicas came to the public with much anticipation. One of the prosecutors in the case reported, before the proceedings began, that he had requested that the official be tried with alternative measures to pre-trial detention.
The initial hearing against the director general of the National Civil Police (PNC), Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, took place on Tuesday. The diligence began after 10 o’clock in the morning.
In the afternoon, the Fifth Peace Court of San Salvador has ruled that it will give its resolution tomorrow, Wednesday, at 2 p.m.
The judicial official is being prosecuted for the crime of breach of obligations, according to the accusation of the General Prosecutor’s Office (FGR) for non-compliance with the order to bring the Minister of Finance, Alejandro Zelaya, to the Legislative Assembly, before the special commission investigating the use of public funds during emergency COVID-19 .
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The assembly also certified to the Attorney General’s Office that the director of police did not comply with the notification made by the legislature to take Minister Zelaya by force.
One of the prosecutors in the case reported, before the proceedings began, that he had requested that the official be tried with alternative measures to pre-trial detention.
In turn, the defendant said that he respects the activity of the judiciary and that he is confident that he will come out with a good result, if not at this stage of the process, then the next.
Last week, during the investigation of the crime against him, Arriaza Chicas added “that he did nothing wrong” and that the accusation comes for “non-fulfillment of illegal orders that are not covered by legal formalities”, as he said briefly at the Center Judge Isidro Menéndez.
This is the second lawsuit Arriaza Chicas is facing. In the late 1990s, he was prosecuted for procedural fraud, after being charged with implanting evidence (an AK-47 rifle) in a court proceeding from which he was dismissed.
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