40 attempted to leave the country; especially in the case of someone who had been convicted such as the person in the instant case.”90 69(54) On May 3, 1994, Ricardo Canese filed an action on unconstitutionality against interlocutory order No. 409 of April 29, 1994 (supra para. 69(53)).91 69(55) On June 8, 1994, Ricardo Canese and his lawyer submitted a brief to the First Criminal Trial Court requesting “permission to leave the country” for four days, because the Bicameral Unlawful Acts Investigation Committee of the National Congress had decided to include him in the “Official Legislative Committee” that would travel to Brazil on June 14, 1994. In this brief, Mr. Canese offered effective, personal surety.92 On June 8, 1994, the President and the Secretary General of the Bicameral Committee requested the First Trial Judge for Criminal Matters to bear in mind, when considering [Mr. Canese’s] request to leave the country, that the Bicameral Committee considered it “necessary that Ricardo Canese accompany [the Commission’s] delegation that [would] travel to Brazil on […] June 14 and return on June 18, [1994], in view of his expertise in matters relating to Itaipú.” The Bicameral Committee also indicated that Mr. Canese would return to Paraguay together with the delegation, “and that any suggestion that he wishes to abscond from the country in order to evade his trial should be rejected.”93 69(56) On June 9, 1994, the First Criminal Trial Court issued interlocutory order No. 593, deciding to forward the requests of the Bicameral Unlawful Acts Investigation Committee and Ricardo Canese (supra para. 69(55)) to the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay.94 The following day, that Court decided to return “the principal case files to the court of origin,” because the “petition is based on different reasons from those supporting the order currently contested by the action on 90 Cf. interlocutory order No. 409 issued by the First Criminal Trial Court on April 29, 1994 (copy of the file of the criminal proceeding against Ricardo Canese for the offenses of slander and injuria before the First Criminal Trial Court, file of attachments to the brief answering the application, and with observations on the brief with requests and arguments, tome I, attachment 4, folios 933 and 934). 91 Cf. action on unconstitutionality filed by Ricardo Canese and his lawyer on May 3, 1994 (copy of the file of the criminal proceeding against Ricardo Canese for the offenses of slander and injuria before the First Criminal Trial Court, file of attachments to the brief answering the application, and with observations on the brief with requests and arguments, tome I, attachment 4, folio 938); and testimony of Ricardo Nicolás Canese Krivoshein given before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 28, 2004. 92 Cf. brief submitted by Ricardo Canese and his lawyer to the First Criminal Trial Court on June 8, 1994 (copy of the file of the criminal proceeding against Ricardo Canese for the offenses of slander and injuria before the First Criminal Trial Court, file of attachments to the brief answering the application, and with observations on the brief with requests and arguments, tome I, attachment 4, folios 944 and 945); and testimony of Ricardo Nicolás Canese Krivoshein given before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 28, 2004. 93 Cf. communication of June 8, 1994, addressed by the President and Secretary General of the Bicameral Unlawful Acts Investigation Committee of the National Congress to the First Trial Judge for Criminal Matters (copy of the file of the criminal proceeding against Ricardo Canese for the offenses of slander and injuria before the First Criminal Trial Court, file of attachments to the brief answering the application, and with observations on the brief with requests and arguments, tome I, attachment 4, folio 942). 94 Cf. interlocutory order No. 593 issued by the First Criminal Trial Court on June 9, 1994 (copy of the file of the criminal proceeding against Ricardo Canese for the offenses of slander and injuria before the First Criminal Trial Court, file of attachments to the brief answering the application, and with observations on the brief with requests and arguments, tome I, attachment 4, folio 946).