to verification by the Inter-American Commission that those acts were not being investigated, as
recorded in Admissibility Report No. 84/08 on this case.143
102. Consequently, case No. 6147/10 was opened. In the context of this investigation,
summonses were issued to Mercedes Valencia Chuquimia, Mauricio Valenzuela Valencia, Álvaro
Taboada Valencia, Freddy Cáceres Castro, Oswaldo Lulleman Antezana, Claudia Valencia Alarcón,
Raul Oswaldo Lulleman Gutiérrez, Victoria Gutiérrez de Lulleman, Carlos Eladio Cruz Añez, Norma
Lupe Alarcón de Valencia, Patricia Catalina Gallardo Ardúz and Blas Valencia Campos.144
Statements were only taken from Patricia Catalina Gallardo Ardúz,145 Mercedes Valencia
Chuquimia,146 Blas Valencia Campos147 and Elacio Peña Córdoba.148 In addition, requests were
made to several institutions,149 and information was received from the Commander of the Bolivian
Police,150 from the La Paz district prosecutor,151 and from the Forensic Investigations Institute.152
103. On April 8, 2014, by Resolution No. 023/2013, the special prosecutor assigned to the Crimes
against Persons Division presented a rejection resolution to the Seventh Criminal Investigation
Judge. In this resolution, he considered that the investigation that had been conducted had not
provided any evidence that would clarify the act denounced and, therefore, there were insufficient
indications or evidence to prove that the act denounced had effectively been executed.153
104. On October 23, 2014, the interim Vice Minister of Justice and Fundamental Rights filed an
objection to the rejection resolution considering that a diligent investigation had not been
conducted. In it, he asked the departmental prosecutor to forward the rejection resolution in order
to exercise hierarchical control and annul it.154 Subsequently, some requests were recorded in
order to be able to serve notice of the rejection.155 On September 12, 2019, the Prosecutor
General decided the objection to the rejection and annulled Rejection Resolution No. 023/2013 of
Cf. Report on the opening of an investigation issued by the prosecutor, director of operations for cases reported
to the Special Crime Fighting Force, on July 7, 2010 (evidence file, folio 11581).
143
144
Cf. Summons to appear before the Public Prosecution Service as a victim issued by the prosecutor on August
2, 2010 (evidence file, folios 12875 to 12886).
145
Cf. Statement to the police by Patricia Catalina Gallardo Ardúz on August 24, 2010 (evidence file, folios 12888
and 12889).
Cf. Statement to the police by Mercedes Valencia Chuquimia on August 27, 2010 (evidence file, folios 12897
and 12898).
146
147
Cf. Record of statement by Blas Valencia Campos on February 7, 2011 (evidence file, folios 13000 to 13002).
148
Cf. Record of statement by Elacio Peña Córdova on March 21, 2011 (evidence file, folios 13021 and 13022).
149
Cf. Request to the National Director for National Identification to forward a notarized photocopy of the criminal
record or Kardex index card of the alleged victims on August 3, 2010 (evidence file, folio 12867), and Request to the
Director of the Cossmil Military Hospital to forward information on the health of Blas Valencia Campos on August 2,
2010 (evidence file, folio 12874).
150
Cf. Copy of Kardex index cards forwarded by the National Directorate for National Identification on August 27,
2010 (evidence file, folios 13006 to 13014).
Cf. Report No. 119/2011 of the La Paz departmental prosecutor sent on July 14, 2011 (evidence file, folios
13029 to 13032).
151
Cf. Report CITE/NE-COOR-GRAL-IDIF-JTD-418/2012 of the Forensic Investigations Institute of August 31, 2012
(evidence file, folios 13054 to 13067).
152
153
Cf. Resolution No. 023/2013 of the special prosecutor of April 8, 2014 (evidence file, folios 11583 and 11584).
Cf. Intervention of the interim Vice Minister of Justice and Fundamental Rights on October 23, 2014 (evidence
file folios 13081 to 13089).
154
Cf. Request to the director of the National Civil Registry Service of November 17, 2016 (evidence file, folios
13119-13120) and response of the Civil Registry Service by official communication SERECI-LPZ-CERT-N-70465-26999/2016 of Novembre 17, 2016 (evidence file folios 13121 to 13126).
155
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