91. The Central Bank received 1,426 petitions under article 31 of Law 17,613, regarding which it re-examined approximately 500 files owing to the filing of appeals for annulment against the initial decisions or to new petitions.133 Of these 1,426 petitions, 22 obtained a favorable opinion from the Advisory Commission and a favorable decision from the Board of the Central Bank.134 In the instant case, 539 alleged victims filed petitions before the Central Bank, all of which were rejected.135 92. When initiating its mandate, the Advisory Commission noted the existence of three major groups of petitioners: (i) those they classified as “TCB direct”; (ii) the petitioners who had invested in investment funds, and (iii) those who had acquired shares in Trade & Commerce Bank certificates of deposit. The group classified as “TCB direct” included the petitioners who had deposited directly with Trade & Commerce Bank or contracted directly with that bank, through the office of its representative in Montevideo or through Banco de Montevideo (supra para. 69). In the latter case, the Banco de Montevideo acted as an intermediary and some type of account in the Banco de Montevideo was frequently used, in which the money was be deposited for transfer to Trade & Commerce Bank. 136 The second group of petitioners consisted of those whose 133 Cf. File on the constitution of the Advisory Commission of the Central Bank of Uruguay, supra nota 102 (folios 19611 and 19626) and brief with answers of the members of the Advisory Commission to the 19th Criminal Judge of First Instance,, supra nota 99 (folios 13245 and 13246). By Decision D/758/2004 of May 11, 2004, the Board of the Central Bank of Uruguay extended the authority to study and examine the administrative remedies filed against the Board’s decisions “that did not admit the petitions submitted” under article 31 of Law 17,613. Decision D/758/2004 of the Board of the Central Bank of Uruguay, supra nota 127 (folio 19612). 134 Testimony of the witness Augusto Durán Martínez before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing in this case. According to the body of evidence in the file, the said 22 cases belong to the following persons: (1) Rolando Massoni, Martha Moreira and Sandra Massoni (File No. 2003/0228) (file of attachments to the application, volume XVI, attachment 12 (J), folios 11771 to 11774); (2) Kurt Bauer (File No. 2003/1329) (file of attachments to the application, volume XV, attachment 12 (I), folios 11150 to 11153); (3) Ernesto Llovet (File No. 2003/0952) (file of attachments to the application, volume XV, attachment 12 (I), folios 11350 to 11353); (4) Emilio Villamil Ramos and Elsa Marialli García (File No. 2003/0532) (file of attachments to the application, volume XV, attachment 12 (I), folios 11590 to 11593); (5) Carmen García Pardo (File No. 2003/0908) (file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 12 (D), folios 6445 to 6451); (6) María del Carmen Bacigalupe and Julio Alberto Soler (File No. 2003/0221) (file of attachments to the application, volume III, attachment 12 (B), folios 3375 to 3436); (7) María Julia Boeri Bottero and María del Rosario Delmonte Boeri (File No. 2003/0708) (file of attachments to the application, volumes V and XIII, attachments 12 (C) and 12 (G), folios 4982 to 5070 and folios 9561 to 9640); (8) Graciela Cabrera D'Amico (File No. 2003/0880) (file of attachments to the application, volume X, attachment 12 (E), folios 8588 to 8663); (9) Gabriel Deus Rodríguez (File No. 2003/1045) (file of attachments to the application, volume VII, attachment 12 (D), folios 6215 and 6216); (10) Lucía Guiambruno (File No. 2003/0327) (file of attachments to the State’s final written arguments, volume I, attachment 3, folios 30126 and 30127); (11) José Luis Martín Hernández (File No. 2003/0602) (file of attachments to the application, volume I, attachment 12, folios 2606 to 2619); (12) Rafael Outeiro Silvera and Jorge Peláez Pla (File No. 2003/1339) (file of attachments to the application, volume VIII, attachment 12, folios 6726 to 6729); (13) Álvaro Gerardo Pérez Asteggiante (File No. 2003/0438) (file of attachments to the application, volume XV, attachment 12 (I), folios 10970 to 11035); (14) Erasmo Salvador Petingi Nocella (File No. 2003/0610) (file of attachments to the application, volume II, attachment 12, folios 2637 to 2695); (15) Ximena Camaño Rolando and Ana Laura Camaño Rolando (File No. 2003/0650) (file of attachments to the application, volume I, attachment 12, folios 2315 to 2471); (16) Lucía Piñeyrúa Zeni (File No. 2003/0595) (file of attachments to the application, volume IX, attachment 12 (E), folios 7402 to 7405); (17) Lylianne Edith Urdaneta Magri (File No. 2003/0956) (file of attachments to the application, volume X, attachment 12 (E), folios 8441 to 8444); (18) Néstor Alberto Rosales and Viviana Rivanera de Rosales (File No. 2003/0493) (file of attachments to the application, volume XV, attachment 12 (I), folios 11049 to 11071); (19) Marta Cázeres (File No. 2003/0598) (file of attachments to the application, volume IV, attachment 12 (B), folios 3774 to 3821); (20) Clara Jasinski (File No. 2003/0637) (file of attachments to the application, volume III, attachment 12 (B), folios 3450 to 3490); (21) Raúl Montero (File No. 2003/0469) (file of attachments to the application, volume XVI, attachment 12 (J), folios 11783 to 11786), and (22) Elena Ibarra Acle and Victor Muccia García (File No. 2003/0521) (file of attachments to the application, volume III, attachment 12 (B), folios 3727 and 3728). 135 The Annex to this judgment lists their names and location in the file before the Court of the evidence concerning their petitions before the Central Bank under article 31 of Law 17,613. 136 Cf. Testimony of the witness Augusto Durán Martínez before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing in this case. According to a Central Bank documents, TCB Mandatos, the representative of the TCB in Montevideo, was not authorize to “open account and register the signatures of the clients of the Trade & Commerce Bank.” Document issued by the Central Bank of Uruguay on May 18, 2001, under “TCB Mandatos 34