78 Proceedings before the Second Supraprovincial Criminal Court 197(69) On May 31, 2005 the Specialized Prosecutors’ Office for Forced Disappearances, Extrajudicial Killings, and Exhumation of Clandestine Graves presented criminal accusation No. 35-02, for the Crime against the Life, Body, and Health, Aggravated Murder, against the alleged victims that died in this case, based on the events that occurred in the Criminal Center Migual Castro Castro between the days of May 6 and 10, 1992.111 197(70) On June 16, 2005 the Second Supraprovincial Criminal Court issued the Order for the Preliminary Proceedings to commence in process No. 0045-2005, corresponding to the investigation of the facts occurred in the Criminal Center Castro Castro between the days of May 6 and 9, 1992, against Juan Briones Dávila (former Secretary of the Interior), Adolfo Cuba y Escobedo (former General Director of the National Police Force), Miguel Barriga Gallardo (General of the National Police Force of Peru), Teófilo Vásquez (Colonel of the National Police Force of Peru), General Lieutenant Federico Gonzalo Hurtado Esquerre (former DINOES chief of the National Police Force of Peru), Colonel Jesús Artemio Konja Chacon (Head of the National Police Force of Peru in 1992), General Alfredo Vivanco Pinto (Colonel of the National Police Force of Peru), Colonel Jesús Manuel Pajuelo García (Sub chief of “Operative Transfer 1”), Commander Jorge Luis Lamela Rodríguez, Mayor Félix Guilleromo Lizarraga Lazo, Colonel Estuardo Napoleón Mestanza Bautista, and Mayor José Raúl Málaga Johnson for Crimes against Life, Body, and Health, Aggravated Murder Murder, and against Gabino Marcelo Cajahuanca Parra (former Director of the Miguel Castro Castro Prison) for the crime of Improper Omission of Murder- Murder, against the alleged victims that died in this case. Additionally, a restricted order of appearance was issued against each of the accused, and certain proceedings, such as preliminary statements of the accused, testimonial statements, and preventive statements of the victims’ next of kin were ordered.112 197(71) On November 7, 2005 the Second Supraprovincial Criminal Court declared process No. 0045-2005 complex, due to the number of evidentiary means that were still pending, the plurality of accused and offended, the series of facts subject of the preliminary proceedings, and the seriousness of the crime object of judicial investigation. Additionally, it ordered that the term of the preliminary proceedings be extended for six months, in order to perform certain diligences, such as the preliminary statement of an accused, receiving testimonial statements from 45 people, and diligences of expert ratification and judicial inspection.113 Canto Grande, page 785 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 6, corresponding to a compact disc). 111 Cfr. Accusation presented by the Specialized Prosecutors’ Office for Forced Disappearances, Extrajudicial Killings, and Exhumation of Clandestine Graves, on May 31, 2005 (dossier of appendixes to the response to the petition, folio 5303). 112 Cfr. Order for Preliminary Proceedings to Commence issued by the Second Supraprovincial Court of Peru on June 16, 2005 (dossier of appendixes to the response to the petition, folios 5373 to 5477). 113 Cfr. Ruling Delcaring the Complexity of the Proceedings issued by the Second Supraprovincial Court of Peru on November 7, 2005 (dossier of appendixes to the response to the petition, folio 5479).

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