20 As of January 1983, he participated fully in the Mr. Ivcher’s naturalization procedure. On September 17, 1984, he deposited all the documents required to obtain Peruvian nationality with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Following an extensive internal process, this Ministry issued the “supreme resolution” signed by the President of the Republic, Fernando Belaúnde. Subsequently, Mr. Ivcher had to renounce his Israeli nationality, and he did this before the public notary, Luis Vargas, in a public instrument dated December 6, 1984. Based on this evidence, his nationality title, numbered 0644, was issued. The public instrument is kept by the notary, who is responsible for recording it in his books. For the 10 years following the issue of Mr. Ivcher’s nationality title, it was never questioned. Then the Government stated that the public instrument was dated July 1990, which was false, because that date corresponded to a request for a copy and not that of the original instrument, which dates from 1984. He was no longer working with Mr. Ivcher when the problems regarding the nationality title started, because it was claimed that the naturalization file did not exist and that the copies had been lost. Nevertheless, he knew that Mr. Ivcher was not allowed to defend himself and was not notified of the revocation of his nationality title; a simple “directorial resolution” was issued that annulled his nationality title. In 1998, the copies of the file were found in the files of Interpol, Peru, on page 302 of book G, but the Police Force denied that they existed. When the copies were found, they were forwarded to various well-known people and institutions and the Government was urged to annul the prejudicial administrative resolution, without the need for an administrative or judicial proceeding, since the “directorial resolution” which revoked the nationality title, was of a lower rank than the “supreme resolution” which granted it. There was no reply. He was included in a criminal proceeding for company administration fraud, general misrepresentation and public misdemeanor. The judge, the prosecutor and the assistant prosecutor were the same as those who intervened in all the proceedings involving Mr. Ivcher. Also, witnesses with their faces covered were heard at all the proceedings. The judgment was never read to him, for health reasons, and he was given a conditional four-year sentence. During the proceeding, he did not know what he was charged with and his defense counsel did not have access to the file. There were briefs in the file, submitted by the authorities themselves, which the judge did not take into consideration. Furthermore, he could not prove his innocence because he did not have access to the Channel 2 documents or to those of the tax authorities and, although he had filed judicial proceedings against SUNAT so that they would be delivered to him, the results had been negative. While listening to the judgment being read, he was arrested, and was imprisoned for 45 days and, while he was in the San Jorge prison, National Intelligence Service agents entered his cell and lit up his face with a lamp, but as people began “to make a racket”, they ran off. The Peruvian justice system instituted a criminal proceeding against him to create a “large pair of pincers” that would not let Ivcher Bronstein and his family act to defend their rights.