67. Actions from that time until 2015 included: (a) the statement of December 21, 2011 of A.M., who denied having participated in the incident;66 (b) the Office of Judicial Archives of the Military Justice (APROJUMI) and the Ministry of Defense, on September 23 and October 10, 2013, respectively, responded to the requests for information regarding the file on the incident being examined by the Sixth Military Court and on those who participated in the operation of April 21, 1974; 67 (c) testimony was taken on October 30 and November 28, 2014;68 (d) on July 28, 2015, autopsies were performed on the bodies of Ms. Reyes and Ms. Raggio after their exhumation on May 27 and June 8, 2015,69 and (e) on December 9, 2015, at the request of the acting judge, the Ministry of Defense presented information on two soldiers.70 68. One of the two soldiers, E.K., was summoned to declare on April 7, 2016.71 However, he appealed by invoking the prescription of the criminal act and the unconstitutionality of Laws 18,831 and 19,550. These remedies were resolved during that year, the following year and 2018 (infra paras. 161 to 163). 69. On July 17, 2018, the Office of the Special Prosecutor decided to intervene and, on August 2, requested different measures of evidence that were ordered the following day, among them, that E.K. be summoned to declare, which was scheduled for Cf. Statement of A.M. on December 21, 2011, given before the Eighth Criminal Court (evidence file, files remitted by the State, fs. 5840 to 5843). 66 Cf. Requests of documentation of September 2, 2013, Communications 619/2013 and 621/2013 of the Eighth Criminal Court remitted, respectively, to AJPROJUMI and to the Ministry of National Defense and the responses of those bodies of September 23 (Communication OFJ-7095000025/2013) and October 10, 2013 (Communication 686/SecMtro/13), respectively (evidence file, files remitted by the State, fs. 5989 and 5991 to 5993). The Ministry of Defense, in its response, stated that it had no information on the persons who participated in the operation and suggested that information be sought at the General Archives of the Nation, which after being requested responded that it had no information, but did send “a photocopy regarding Arturo Ricardo Reyes Gaetán from information in the files of OCOA” (cf. Request for documentation of October 23, 2013, Communication No. 732/2013, sent by the Eighth Criminal Court to the National Archives and the response of the latter of November 4, 2013 (evidence file, files remitted by the State, fs. 5997 to 5998, respectively). 67 Cf. Statements of G.N. before the Eighth Criminal Court on October 30 and November 28, 2014 and of C.V. on the latter date (evidence file, files remitted by the State, fs. 6069 to 6072, and 6079 to 6083 and 6084 to 6087, respectively). 68 Cf. Communications 326/P and 605, of May 26 and June 3, 2017, of the Chief of Police of Canelones and of the Fourth Court of Maldonado; minutes of the exhumations of May 27 and June 8, 2015 and reports on the autopsies by the Technical Forensic Institute of the Judiciary of July 28, 2015 (evidence file, files remitted by the State, fs. 6139, 6156, 6140, 6157 to 6159 and 6180 to 6224, respectively). 69 Cf. Office of the Prosecutor General. Opinion outside the hearing No. 1773/15/FP4T of November 5, 2015; Decree 2315/2015 of the same date, issued by the acting judge favorably receiving the request made in the prior document, and communication No. 131/SG/15 of the Armed Forces Retirement and Pension Service of November 30, 2015, addressed to the Sub-Director General of the Secretariat of the Ministry of National Defense, received on December 9, 2015 by the court hearing the case (evidence file, files remitted by the State, fs. 6320 to 6321, 6322 and 6333 to 6334, respectively). The judge had requested information on three persons: J.R., E.K. and M.M. in order to interrogate them “on the denounced facts.” The Ministry of Defense indicated that it lacked information regarding the third person. 70 71 Cf. Summons issued on February 24, 2016 (evidence file, files remitted by the State, f. 6339). 20