83 Trafficking and Environmental Crimes Court of First Instance, the private accuser filed a formal complaint before the Office of the General Supervisor of Courts due to the patently irregular processing of the case by this Judge.213 On June 22 of that same year the Office of the General Supervisor of Courts submitted its report to the Supreme Court. On July 15, the claimant submitted a brief to the President of the Supreme Court of Justice reiterating and expanding upon the ideas stated before the Office of the General Supervisor of Courts. On October 6, 1998, the private accuser was notified of the rejection of the complaint before the Office of the General Supervisor of Courts because it was deemed inadmissible;214 Murder of a policeman, threats against and exile of witnesses, policemen, judges, prosecutors, and other legal operators of the judiciary 134.95. José Mérida Escobar and Julio Pérez Ixcajop, in charge of the investigation in the Myrna Mack Chang case, were followed and directly intimidated by staff of the “Archivo,” who told them that they should not continue the investigation;215 134.96. on August 5, 1991, after ratifying before the courts his September 29, 1990 report, José Mérida Escobar was murdered by unknown persons using a firearm, close to the headquarters of the National Police, due to his investigations in the Myrna Mack Chang case;216 134.97. As a consequence of the threats he had been receiving due to his investigations in the Myrna Mack Chang case and of the murder of José Mérida Escobar, Julio Pérez Ixcajop left Guatemala in October, 1991, and went into exile in Canada;217 134.98. As a consequence of the threats he was receiving, Rember Larios Tobar, then the Head of the Criminological Investigations Department of the National Police (DIC), left Guatemala in 1992 and went into exile in Canada;218 134.99. José Tejeda Hernández and Juan Marroquín Tejeda – the only two witnesses of the murder – and Virgilio Rodríguez Santana, a newspaper salesman at the time of the facts and a witness to the surveillance on Myrna Mack Chang, also 213 Cf. request to the Special Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office dated June 22, 1998 (file with annexes to the brief answering the application and raising preliminary objections, leaves 8160 to 8166). 214 Cf. application by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of June 19, 2001 (dossier on the merits and possible reparations, volume I, leaf 38). 215 Cf. report by the Human Rights Ombudsman of November 9, 1992 (file with annexes to the application, annex 47, leaves 882 to 896); and testimony of Rember Larios Tobar rendered before the Court on February 19, 2003. 216 Cf. testimony of Rember Larios Tobar rendered before the Court on February 19, 2003; and report by the Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico, “Guatemala, memoria del silencio” in June, 1999, volume VI, pages 235 to 244 (file with annexes to the application, annex 42, leaf 792). 217 Cf. report by the Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico, “Guatemala, memoria del silencio” in June, 1999, volume VI, pages 235 to 244 (file with annexes to the application, annex 42, leaves 788 to 793). 218 Cf. testimony of Rember Larios Tobar rendered before the Court on February 19, 2003.