47 Concerning the criminal proceedings opened in the case of the brothers Benjamín and Rodolfo Ramírez Villalba 61(92) On November 8, 1989, Julio Darío Ramírez Villalba filed a criminal complaint for the alleged crimes of abduction, illegal deprivation of liberty, abuse of authority, torture and double homicide, to the detriment of Rodolfo Ramírez Villalba and Benjamín Ramírez Villalba. He also requested that the criminal complaint filed against Sabino Augusto Montanaro, Francisco Albiades Brítez Borges, Pastor Milciades Coronel, Alberto Buenaventura Cantero, Lucilo Benítez, Camilo Almada Morel, Juan Aniceto Martínez, Eusebio Torres and “someone called Belotto,” and the other masterminds and perpetrators, accomplices and accessories after the fact be admitted. 61(93) On November 23, 1989, the Fourth Criminal Court of First Instance decided to open the preliminary inquiry to investigate and prove the facts and ordered the continued detention of Francisco Alcibíades Brítez Borges, Pastor Milciades Coronel and Lucilo Benítez, and the detention of Sabino Augusto Montanaro, Alberto Buenaventura Cantero, Camilo Almada Morel, Juan Aniceto Martínez, Eusebio Torres and “someone called Belotto.” On March 8, 1990, the court decided the convert the preventive detention (detención preventiva) of Pastor Milciades Coronel, Alberto Buenaventura Cantero, Camilo Almada Morel, Juan Aniceto Martínez, Eusebio Torres and Agustín Belotto Vouga “into preventive custody (prisión preventiva), and they must continue in prison.” On February 7, 1991, it announced the same decision with regard to Francisco Alcibíades Brítez Borges. 61(94) During February, November and December 1990, February, March and May 1992, and May and August 1993, the court received preliminary and testimonial statements. 61(95) In October 1992, the Court instructed that its order for the “defendant fugitive from justice Sabino Augusto Montanaro” to appear before it so that “he would be on hand for the decisions taken during the proceedings against him for the alleged crimes of abduction, torture, illegal deprivation of liberty, double homicide, and abuse of authority” should be published in a newspaper 15 times. In September 1993, it again ordered the publication of the court order. 61(96) On January 15, 1993, the said Fourth Criminal Court of First Instance decided to expand the preliminary proceedings to include Benito Guanes Serrano and Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda for the “alleged crimes of abduction, illegal deprivation of liberty, abuse of authority, torture and double homicide” and ordered their preventive custody. 61(97) After an objection had been raised to the head of the Fourth Criminal Court of First Instance in January 1993, the Fifth Criminal Court of First Instance decided in March that year to include General Benito Guanes Serrano in the preliminary proceedings as one of the accused and ordered his preventive detention. It also included General Alfredo Stroessner in the preliminary proceedings as one of the accused and ordered his preventive detention for the purpose of requesting his extradition (infra para. 61(111)). 61(98) On June 25, 1993, the Fifth Criminal Court of First Instance decided to change the preventive detention of Benito Guanes Serrano “into preventive custody, and he should remain in prison.” It also issued a writ of attachment on his property.