Radio America. The lawyer Juan Carlos Barrientos, this Monday stated, “I don’t know why they take a long time to repeal the Law of Secrets, which from the beginning was a bad delivery, that is, that the things of the State of Honduras cannot be made secret, but public. .
“I don’t know how much they turn around to proceed with the repeal of the Secrets Law, unless they want to leave it for military matters as if we had aircraft carriers, a Russian army or a nuclear secret that could be protected,” he ironically the legal professional.
With the elimination of the Secrecy Law, the togado believes that the authorities will have access to investigate a series of things, among them the Population Security Tax, since the investment of the funds in security matters is not known, nor the expenses in the Honduran National Police.
In the same way, in sensitive expenses with very high budgets, but the interviewee believes that the repeal of the Law of Secrets and the approval of the Effective Collaboration will contribute to the transparency of the management of funds by the government.
“It seems to me that the most important thing with the repeal of the Law of Secrets is the repeal of the Criminal Code of Impunity,” argued the robed man.
“What is the use of a foreign mission like the CICIH coming to the country, or that there is Effective Collaboration, if it continues to have the Penal Code that will allow criminals to leave the (prison) quickly due to the lack of accreditation of the crimes of the crime organized and money laundering”, the expert asked.
In the same way, he asked, “what is the use of implementing the aforementioned measures, if a Penal Code is going to be left that urgently needs a review of the penalties for the crimes of corruption and organized crime.”
In this regard, Barrientos considered that the authorities should focus on the fact that Honduras requires tough and exemplary criminal legislation, so that society sees that the arm of the law will reach even the most intrinsic sectors that commit acts of corruption.
“It is useless to bring the CICIH, if the scheme that criminal action is still going to be maintained as a monopoly of the Public Ministry, whose law says that no prosecutor has autonomy to present accusations or requirements, since permission or approval must be requested. to the Attorney General”, questioned the interviewee.
Information: Hector Murillo and Vilma Aceituno
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