6 next of kin submitted a brief on the same issue. On May 28, 2002, the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin transmitted the original of the said brief, with the attachment indicated in this document. 29. On May 22, 2002, the State presented its comments on the request to substitute the witness, Jorge Santistevan de Noriega (supra para. 27), and on the powers of attorney offered by the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin (supra paras. 25 and 27), indicating that the latter contained some irregularities. The same day, Peru presented another communication in which it referred to the information presented by the Commission (supra para. 26) regarding compliance with the judgments delivered by the Supreme Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court of Peru, and the annulment of article 5 of Decree Law No. 25792. On July 1, 2002, Peru presented the original of these communications. 30. On May 24, 2002, the Secretariat granted the State a period of 30 days to present, at the request of the Commission in the application brief, information on the amount of the monthly pension that it had paid to Carlos Torres Benvenuto, Javier Mujica Ruiz-Huidobro, Guillermo Álvarez Hernández and Reymert Bartra Vásquez, and to Maximiliano Gamarra Ferreyra or his next of kin since November 1992; and on the amount received as salary since November 1992 by the persons who occupied the following positions, or positions with similar functions, in the Superintendency of Banks and Insurance (hereinafter “the SBS” or “the Superintendency”): a) Director General of Communications (the last position that Torres Benvenuto held in the SBS); b) General Superintendent of Credits of the Superintendency of Banks and Insurance (the last position that Javier Mujica Ruiz-Huidobro held in the SBS); c) Administrative Adviser to Senior Management (the last position that Guillermo Álvarez Hernández held in the SBS); d) Technical Adviser to the Deputy Superintendency of Specialized Insurance Entities (the last position that Reymert Bartra Vásquez held in the SBS); and e) Superintendent of Banks and Insurance (the last position that Maximiliano Gamarra Ferreyra held in the SBS). 31. On May 24, 2002, the Secretariat, on the instructions of the President, requested the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin to clarify the State’s concerns regarding the powers of attorney granted by Javier Mujica RuizHuidobro, Carlos Torres Benvenuto and Reymert Bartra Vásquez before the notary, Alfredo Aparicio Valdez (supra paras. 25, 27 and 29). 32. On June 3, 2002, the State presented the documents corresponding to appendices 8 and 9 of the brief answering the application (supra para. 21). 33. On June 14, 2002, the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin forwarded a communication with information on the situation of the powers of attorney granted by Javier Mujica Ruiz-Huidobro, Carlos Torres Benvenuto and Reymert Bartra Vásquez before the notary, Alfredo Aparicio Valdez (supra paras. 25, 27, 29 and 31). They also presented the original powers of attorney for the proceeding before the Court that Javier Mujica Ruiz-Huidobro and Reymert Bartra Vásquez had granted to Viviana Krsticevic, Javier Mujica Petit and María Clara Galvis on June 3 and 4, 2002. 34. On July 1, 2002, Peru presented a communication in which it transmitted part of the information requested by the Secretariat (supra para. 30) on the amounts earned as salary by the persons who had occupied similar functions or positions to