17. The Court received different documents submitted as evidence by the InterAmerican Commission, the representatives and the State attached to their principal briefs (supra paras. 1, 5 and 6). In addition, the Court received the affidavits of the witnesses and expert witnesses listed in this section, on the topics mentioned below: 1) Marcelo Arámbulo, witness proposed by the representatives, who testified on the alleged responsibility of the Central Bank of Uruguay, its alleged failure to exercise comptrollership, and other alleged illegal acts that occurred as a result of the assistance provided to some of the institutions in trouble during the 2002 crisis; 2) Victor Rossi, witness proposed by the representatives, who testified on the actions of the Parliamentary Investigating Commission created during the 2002 crisis; 3) Julio Herrera, witness proposed by the representatives, who testified on the approval process of Law No. 17,613 and, in particular, on the intentions of the Legislature when adopting this law and its article 31; 4) Fernando Barrán, witness proposed by the State, who testified on the circumstances surrounding the 2002 financial crisis in Uruguay, the performance of the Central Bank of Uruguay, the measures adopted during this crisis, the consolidated global monitoring regime, and the operations of the Banco de Montevideo S.A. as a broker in providing clients with products of the Trade & Commerce Bank; 5) Jorge Xavier, witness proposed by the State, who testified on the situation of the Banco de Montevideo S.A. before and after its intervention and suspension of activities, as well as the way in which the said bank operated in providing its clients with products of the Trade & Commerce Bank in the Cayman Islands; 6) Rosolina Trucillo, witness proposed by the State, who testified on the situation of the Banco de Montevideo S.A. before and after its intervention and suspension of activities, as well as the way in which the said bank operated in providing its clients with the product of Trade & Commerce Bank in the Cayman Islands, and 7) Julio de Brun, witness proposed by the State, who testified on the actions of the Board of the Central Bank, when he presided this institution, with regard to the petitions filed under article 31 of Law No. 17,613. 18. As regards the evidence rendered at the public hearing, the Court received the testimony of the following persons: 1) Julio Cardozo, witness proposed by the representatives, who testified on the approval process of Law No. 17,613 and, in particular, on the intentions of the Legislature when adopting this law and its article 31; 2) Augusto Durán Martínez, witness proposed by the State, member of the Advisory Commission created by article 31 of Law No. 17,613, who testified on the functioning of this committee, the criteria adopted to determine the admissibility or rejection of petitions, and the administrative procedure regime to which the contestation of its decisions was subject under both the administrative and the jurisdictional channels; 3) Nél ida Mabel Daniele, expert witness proposed by the Inter-American Commission, specialist in human rights and administrative law, who testified on the guarantees 7