Josianni De Jesús Mora Jiménez (niece) US$ 5,000.00 E.- Costs and Expenses 282. The representatives requested that the Court order the State to pay the following amounts in respect of costs and expenses: i) the amount set by the Court, in equity, for expenses incurred by the family of Néstor José Uzcátegui during the domestic legal proceedings; ii) the sum of US$ 66,520.62 (sixty-six thousand, five hundred and twenty dollars of the United States of America and sixty-two cents) for expenses incurred by COFAVIC at the domestic and international levels, and iii) the sum of US$ 11,837.00 (eleven thousand, eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars of the United States of America) for CEJIL. The representatives requested that the amounts set in respect of costs and expenses be paid directly to COFAVIC and CEJIL. 283. Based on its case law316, the Court notes that since 2002, the family of Néstor José Uzcátegui received pro bono support from COFAVIC in the domestic legal proceedings and that the representatives did not forward any evidence whatsoever of the expenses incurred by the Uzcátegui Jiménez family in the domestic legal proceedings. However, the Court, inferring that the family incurred various expenses from the start of those proceedings, decides to set, in equity, the amount of US$ 5,000.00 (five thousand dollars of the United States of America), which shall be paid to Mr. Luis Enrique Uzcátegui. 284. As to the receipts forwarded in relation to certain expenses, the Court considers that these are not clearly related to outlays exclusively linked to the present case and also confirms that COFAVIC submitted fees for psychological treatment for members of the Uzcátegui Jiménez family, without providing more specific information or the details of said fees. Regarding the expenses and outlays related to medical care and various medications, the Court notes that among the expenditures mentioned by COFAVIC are those for “psycho-social support offered to the victims’ relatives”, without providing additional elements to distinguish them from those claimed for the item corresponding to consequential damages; therefore the Court considers these alleged expenses under the item of costs and expenses. The Court further notes that some expenses are not related to this case. As to the receipts for payments made to CEJIL, the Court considers that it was not proven that the receipts provided by the representatives relate to expenses incurred only in the present case and, moreover, some of the receipts are not legible and therefore, the amount or nature of the expense that these are supposed to prove is not clear.317 285. Nevertheless, the Court considers that COFAVIC and CEJIL incurred various expenses in relation to this case, both in the domestic courts and before the InterAmerican System, and therefore it decides to set, in equity, the total amount of US$ 25,000.00 (twenty-five thousand dollars of the United States of America) in favor of COFAVIC and the sum of US$ 4,000.00 (four thousand dollars of the United States of America) in favor of CEJIL. 316 Cf. Case Garrido and Baigorria v. Argentina. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of August 27, 1998. Series C No. 39, para. 82; Case González Medina and relatives v. Dominican Republic, paras. 325 and 326, and Case of Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v. Ecuador, para. 328 and 329. 317 Cf., For example Invoice of the Hotel Campo Alegre, Caracas, Venezuela, No. 31318 (Appendix 9 to pleadings brief, Appendix IV, pp. 22 and 23 computer file) and Invoice for “Transport by road to Coro, State Falcón” of October 2011 (Appendix 5 to the Brief of final written arguments presented by the representatives, p. 10 of the computer file). 70

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