6 Security of the Province of Mendoza, so as to make the compensation to which they were entitled as beneficiaries effective; attempts were made to find the whereabouts of the alleged mother of one of them, Ms. Juana Carmen Gibbs Alvarez, through the search in the last domiciles recorded in public offices and registries; nonetheless, it was not possible to contact her; also, an active agent of the prevention guard of the Ministry of Justice and Security interviewed Mr. Ricardo Baigorria Balmaceda, brother of the victim, at his domicile, and elaborated a record in which Ricardo stated that his brother “... never had a child and that he used to say so in order to have access to the exits benefit of the penitentiary.” Furthermore, the State added that the existence of those children was never proved, and pointed out that there are not sufficient elements to even assume the existence of such children born out of wedlock, and considered that they do not exist. However, it accepted that there are still indirect search possibilities, for instance, through electoral and migration records. Finally, regarding the deposit of the compensatory amount corresponding to the alleged children of Mr. Baigorria granted as reparations, the same was deposited on July 28, 1999 in the Banco de la Nación Argentina, branch Ejército de los Andes, in account no. 62802492/09, in the name of the Tesorería General de la Provincia de Mendoza (General Treasury Office of the Province of Mendoza); b) regarding the obligation to investigate the facts which led to the disappearance of Mr. Adolfo Garrido and Mr. Raúl Baigorria and prosecute and punish the perpetrators, abettors, accessories after the fact and all those who would have taken part in the facts: i. the Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza, through Administrative Provision No. 14342, created an ad hoc Investigation Commission in order to carry out said investigation which, after several months, submitted a final report that was later published with divulging purposes and was presented in an official and public ceremony. As a consequence of the investigations of the ad hoc Commission, proceedings through an Impeachment Jury were instituted against the judge in charge of the investigation of the disappearance of Garrido and Baigorria, who was removed form his office due to the irregularities of the proceeding. Furthermore, it informed that "all police personnel allegedly involved in the facts had been removed from the police force;" ii. in July and on August 11, 2000, two excavations were made, one in the neighborhood called “La Favorita” and the other in the Papagayos circuit, by virtue of information given by the next of kin of one of the victims and by a witness of another proceeding who claimed to know where the bodies of Mr. Garrido and Mr. Baigorria had been buried, but there were no positive results. On October 2, 2002, by means of Provision No. 1329, the Ministry of Justice and Security of the province offered a $5,000 reward to anybody providing precise information in order to determine the whereabouts of said citizens or their remains, as well as the individualization of the perpetrators, abettors or accessories after the fact. As a consequence of the reward offer, in November 2002, a witness of protected identity gave testimony and provided information of several holes where the bodies would allegedly be found. However, the excavations did not yield any results. The reward amount was recently increased to $50,000, fact which has been published in graphic means of communication. Furthermore, he added that some of the holes are oil excavations of hundreds of meters where just one body can be placed and as they are of difficult and very expensive access, the provincial authorities are