For fraud! The four TSE magistrates are linked to criminal proceedings – Publinews – 2024-03-29 06:16:06

The MP’s investigations against the four magistrates may continue. They were benefited with a substitute measure.

After more than six hours of the first hearing, Judge Karen Chinchilla linked the four judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to criminal proceedings for the crime of fraud, so the investigations against them must continue.

According to the judge, in the evidence presented by the prosecution, it is not established that there has been any alteration in the electoral results, only the possibility that the Transmission of Preliminary Electoral Results (TREP) system has been obtained in an overvalued manner.

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In the case of the crime of abuse of authority that the Public Ministry accused Judge Irma Palencia of, the judge ruled that there was no merit because there was no evidence against her.

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After the Comptroller General of Accounts (CGC) found inconsistencies in the way the TSE used the 500 million quetzales destined for the preparation of the 2023 electoral event, the prosecutor’s office pointed out the overvalued purchase of the TREP from the judges Irma Palencia , Mynor Franco, Gabriel Aguilera and Rafael Rojas, from whom on November 30 of that year, the plenary session of the Congress of the Republic withdrew the pretrial proceedings so that they could be investigated.

From that day on, the magistrates left the country in the early hours of the morning, arguing that they had requested a vacation period, which was extended for three periods.

In January 2024, a judge issued the arrest warrant and on February 1 a court ordered the seizure of the bank accounts of the company Datasys SA, responsible for having sold the TREP system to the highest court for Q148 million.