20 between the representatives and the beneficiaries must be solved by means of the corresponding mechanisms of the domestic law. 67. That even though any disputes related to the payment of fees to the representatives should be settled within the domestic sphere, it falls upon the Tribunal to resolve whether the beneficiaries have or have not received the sums ordered in the Judgment. Moreover, the Tribunal shares the doubts expressed in relation to the payments that the representatives delivered to the beneficiaries in compliance with the terms of the Judgment. Even though the State ordered, to such end, a specific amount in favor of those people within the total amount it delivered to the representatives so that they distribute it among the beneficiaries, no item of evidence has been tendered regarding the quantities the representatives effectively distributed and the criteria they used to do that. The Tribunal takes notes that in the specific case of Mrs. Posada and her two sons, the representatives forwarded a copy of the checks delivered to them as a result of the conciliation hearing held in the administrative jurisdiction. Nevertheless, the Court does not have similar evidence that would allow proving the amounts and criteria used in the distribution of the corresponding payments pursuant to the terms of the Judgment of this Court. Therefore, the Tribunal is not able to determine whether this obligation has been complied with. Consequently, the Court deems it is pertinent to require detailed information in this regard (infra Operative Paragraph 2 and 3). 68. That the representatives requested clarification “on the procedure that [needs to be] followed in the [distribution] of the compensatory amounts that correspond to the beneficiaries of Messr. Alberto Correa", given the fact that "the brothers and grandchildren of Mrs. Mercedes Barrera [, who was Messr. Correa's wife], had claimed the payment of the compensation ordered for the [dead] victim, at the same time that the only relative alive [of Messr. Correa], Mrs. Silvia Correa, aunt and foster mother, did it”. As to said requests, the Court acknowledges that the Judgment does not contemplate the specific method to distribute such compensation. Therefore, the Tribunal recalls what it has decided on previous cases,29 in the sense that, should any of the victims die before the pertinent compensatory amounts are paid thereto, such amounts shall inure to the benefit of their heirs, pursuant to the provisions of the applicable domestic legislation. 69. That according to paragraph 422 of the Judgment,30 the State should have deposited the amounts corresponding to the compensations ordered in favor of the minors "in a solvent Colombian banking institution […], within the term of one year, in the most favorable financial conditions permitted by law and banking practice, until the beneficiaries come of age”. It may be withdrawn by any of them when “they come of age or previously, if this is in the best interests of the child, as established by a decision of a competent judicial authority”. Even though the representatives requested the Tribunal to order the State to deposit such amounts in a trust fund, the Court notes that the Judgment did not specify the type of account or institution in which such amounts should have been deposited. Therefore, the State is not necessarily bound to constitute a trust fund; its obligation consists in making a deposit and maintaining the amounts owed in a Colombian institution under the terms mentioned herein. As a consequence, given the fact that the State deposited the respective amounts in banking current accounts under the name of the Ministry of Defense and of the corresponding minor, the Tribunal considers that the State may continue 29 Cf. Case of Garrido and Baigorria v. Argentina. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of August 27, 1998. Series C Nº 39, para. 86; Case of Kawas Fernández v. Honduras. Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of April 3, 2009; Series C No. 196, para. 221; Case of Valle Jaramillo et al., supra note 8 para. 245. 30 Cf. Case of the Ituango Massacres, supra note 7, para. 422.

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