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highway leading to El Salvador, no operation had been ordered by the "INAFOR" [National
Forestry Institute], "DIGESEPE" [Department of Cattle Services] or any other State body.
3)
The aforementioned white van had, days before it was detained, been driven
without registration plates or any identifying documentation.
4)
Some of the six MEMBERS OF THE TREASURY POLICE inside the detained white
van were recognized as perpetrators of criminal acts.
5)
The statements of the six members of the Treasury Police seriously contradicted
one another as to their reason for being in the white van at the spot where the vehicle was
detained.
6)
Some of the six members of the Treasury Police perjured themselves by saying
that it was the first time they had gone out on operations in the white van.
7)
The six members of the Treasury Police contradicted one another, some saying
that they had carried out an operation and others saying that they had not. They did not
even know what kind of barriers or signals should be used.
8)
CÉSAR AUGUSTO GUERRA-RAMÍREZ, a member of the Treasury Police who was
inside the captured white van, stated that some members of the Treasury Police
Department used knives or razors as part of their equipment.
9)
The corpses of five of the six persons kidnapped and later killed showed knife
wounds as the cause of death.
10)
Some members of the Treasury Police were recognized as having made arrests in
civilian or sports clothes.
11)
After making arrests, members of the Treasury Police tortured their detainees and
robbed them of valuables.
12)
Both the white FORD ECONOLINE 350 van with tinted windows and the beige
CHEVROLET CHEVI VAN 20 with brown stripes, now painted brown by the Treasury Police,
had been unlawfully obtained by that Institution, having been taken from the storage
where they were kept.
13)
The white FORD ECONOLINE 350 van with tinted windows had entered
Guatemalan territory with clear glass which had been tinted by the Treasury Police for
reasons unknown.
14)
Both the white and the beige van, now painted brown, had transported a large
amount of merchandise to the Tecúm Umán customs post in Guatemala with an unknown
destination.
15)
The Treasury Police Department has been illegally using fourteen registration
plates belonging to private citizens, including two foreign plates, as seen in the Reserve
Guard log.
16)
The Treasury Police said that, owing to an oversight, the white van had no rear
registration plate on March 10, 1988; but that vehicle was also photographed on March 8,
1988, by the SECOND INTELLIGENCE SECTION OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE in the
vicinity of the Treasury Police without a rear registration plate.
17)
It is untrue that the Treasury Police detained vehicles at the place where they had
been detained in the white van since the three arrests indicated were made by different
Treasury Police than those detained at kilometer 12 and 1/2 on the El Salvador highway,
and had taken place in Zone 10 of the city.
18)
The Treasury Police states that the beige CHEVROLET CHEVY VAN 20 was not
used in its operations, but that is untrue because in the log the vehicle appears as having
gone out on operations after it had been painted brown to hide its original color.
19)
The white NISSAN CHERRY VANETTE minibus, registration number P-89324,
property of AUTORENTAS, S.A., was also used by the Treasury Police and was involved in
the abduction of one of the six murder victims, as appears in the log.