47 brought before the Thirteenth Criminal Justice of Peace on February 20, 1988, accused of the crimes of fraud, theft and unlawful use of identity papers. (cfr. Confidential report of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police of February 19, 1988; police report of February 23, 1987 (sic); statement by Marco Antonio MontesLetona delivered at the office of the Warden of the Pavón Criminal Rehabilitation Farm on March 15, 1988, official communication of the Special Advisory Service of the National Police of Guatemala on April 21, 1988; official communication No. 051/Srio. of June 14, 1988, signed by Luis Alberto Mazariegos-Castellanos, Thirteenth Magistrate, addressed to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance, Julio Aníbal Trejo-Duque; report of expert Carlos Roberto Bux and brief of closing arguments by the State, folio 2). e. On March 10, 1988, the then Director of the National Police of Guatemala, Mr. Julio Enrique Caballeros-Seigne, personally led an operation in which six Treasury Police agents were arrested inside a white van with the front license plate identified by the flag O-16997. The statements given during the investigation by the arrested agents, who were later identified by eyewitnesses and victims as the authors of some of the arrests and beatings described, contained serious contradictions and discrepancies. (cfr. Memorandum of the Third Corps of the National Police of March 10, 1988; police report, official communication No. 3214 Ref. BIEN. FOA/rrh, of June 6, 1988, signed by Felicito Olíva-Arias, Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police; questionnaire for interviews of the Treasury Police agents detained on March 10, 1988; statement by César Augusto Guerra-Ramírez, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement by Neftalí Ramírez-García, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement by Manuel de Jesús de la Cruz-Hernández, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement by Aníbal René Morales-Marroquín delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement by Juan José Elías-Palma, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement by Igloberto Pineda-Juárez, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement by José Luis Grajeda-Beltetón, delivered to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement by Neftalí RamírezGarcía, delivered to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement by Igloberto Pineda-Juárez, delivered to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement by César Augusto Guerra-Ramírez, delivered to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement by Manuel de Jesús de la Cruz-Hernández, delivered to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement by Juan José ElíasPalma, delivered to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement by Aníbal René Morales-Marroquín, delivered to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; official communication 0618/CSB-Dg.- of June 8, 1988, signed by Mr. Carlos Salazar Bonilla, Director of the Treasury Police and addressed to the Seventh Judge of the Criminal First Instance, single folio; official communication of June 10, 1988, signed by DEM Infantry Colonel Julio Enrique Caballeros-Seigne, Director-General of the National Police, addressed to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance; official communication of June 13, 1988, signed by Judge Otto Fernando Palma-Chacón, XII Criminal Justice of Peace and addressed to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance; official communication No. 0475.852/Mhal/arc.- of June 13, 1988, signed by Mr. Carlos Salazar-Bonilla, Director-General of the Treasury Police, addressed to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance; official communication No. 802/jlop from the Chief of the Warrants Office of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Bureau of the National Police of Guatemala and conclusions of the replies obtained during the interrogation of the six Treasury Police agents detained in the white “van” - document undated and unreferenced). f. At the end of the investigations, the National Police prepared a report dated June 6, 1988, which concluded that Treasury Police agents had committed a series of crimes using the "van" confiscated on March 10 of the same year. The Police concluded that the Treasury Police agents arrested on that day gave false statements about their activities; that on March 10 they were not making routine vehicle checks as they claimed in their statement; that several of them had been identified as participants in the crimes; and that they robbed and tortured their victims after arresting them. The National Police also concluded that Treasury Police agents had unlawfully used a number of vehicle license plates; that agents had made false statements regarding the reason why the white "van" had no license plate on the day