42 Actions taken to obtain a statement from Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda and Sabino Augusto Montanaro and their eventual extradition within the criminal proceedings in the case of Agustín Goiburú 61(65) On July 13, 1989, the Third Criminal Court of First Instance ordered that informative statements should be taken from General Alfredo Stroessner and Sabino Augusto Montanaro, via letters rogatory to the judicial authorities of Brazil and Honduras, because it was known that these persons had been granted political asylum in the said countries respectively. 61(66) On August 1, 1989, this court sent the said letters rogatory to the President of the Supreme Court of Justice for processing and forwarding to the respective judges in the Honduran and Brazilian jurisdictions, requesting the informative statements from the “accused fugitives from justice,” Sabino Augusto Montanaro and Alfredo Stroessner, respectively. On November 24, 1989, the said court asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to advise it whether the letters rogatory had been processed and, if so, to indicate the date on which they were forwarded, as well as any other relevant information. 61(67) On December 18, 1989, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that on November 20, 1989, it had forwarded the letter rogatory to the Chargé d’Affaires of the Republic of Honduras in Paraguay, and was therefore awaiting news. Also, on December 30, 1989, the Ministry stated that, on December 2, 1989, the letter rogatory had been forwarded through the Paraguayan Embassy in Brazil and was now at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; it was waiting further news. 61(68) In May 1990, December 1997 and November 1998, the Court of First Instance again requested information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding compliance with the processing of the letters rogatory. 61(69) There is no evidence among the information provided to the file in the instant case of whether the informative statements of General Alfredo Stroessner and Sabino Augusto Montanaro, requested in letters rogatory sent to the Brazilian and Honduran authorities, were made or received by the Paraguayan courts. 61(70) In November and December 1997 and July 1998, Elva Elisa Benítez de Goiburú submitted various request for official letters to be sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting information concerning extradition. Also, in November 1998, she asked that an official letter be sent to INTERPOL and to the National Police informing them of the preventive detention decreed against Sabino Augusto Montanaro. She repeated her requests in February 1999. 61(71) On February 26, 1999, the Fourth Criminal Court of First Instance communicated to the National Police Headquarters that it had decided to order the preventive detention of Sabino Augusto Montanaro. On June 24 and August 4, 1999, the Head of the INTERPOL Office in Asunción requested the court, inter alia, to send some personal information on Mr. Montanaro, photographs and fingerprints, a summary of the crime of which he was accused, and also a copy of the judicial decision ordering his preventive detention for the purpose of extraditing him. This request was repeated on September 10, 1999.