13 73. As evidence to help the Court make a more informed decision, Peru transmitted various documents (supra paras. 30 and 34)14 regarding the amounts of the salary received by the persons who had occupied similar functions or positions to those the alleged victims occupied in the SBS, and about the amount of the monthly pension that it had paid to the alleged victims or their next of kin since November 1992. 74. The representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin presented a brief on the “current status of the case” (supra para. 38), to which they attached 12 documents contained in 6 appendices15. 75. As evidence to help the Court make a more informed decision, the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin presented (supra paras. 39 and 41) three documents16 and an attestation of the Office of the Provincial Criminal Prosecutor of Lima to prove that “an investigation is being processed before the said office into the falsification of the signatures” of the powers of attorney of the representatives of the alleged victims (supra para. 41)17. 76. On September 3, 2002, during the report of the expert witness at the public hearing (supra para. 52), the expert witness, Máximo Jesús Atauje Montes, also presented his report in writing, consisting of 151 pages with 10 documents attached as appendices18. 77. On September 4, 2002, during the presentation of the final arguments of the parties at the public hearing (supra para. 53), the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin presented a 25-page document entitled “La seguridad social y los sistemas de pensiones en el Perú” [Social security and pension systems in Peru]19. 78. The representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin presented eight documents, which had been offered during the public hearing (supra para. 54)20. 79. Juan Álvarez Vita, proposed by the Commission to give an expert witness report at the public hearing on merits and possible reparations (supra para. 56), 14 Cf. folios 752 to 771 and 842 to 888 of Tome IV of the file on merits and possible reparations. 15 Cf. appendices 1 to 6 of the communication of July 22, 2002, of the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin, presented on August 21, 2002 (folios 959 to 995 of Tome IV of the file on merits and possible reparations). 16 Cf. folios 936 to 956 of Tome IV of the file on merits and possible reparations. 17 Cf. folio 935 of Tome IV of the file on merits and possible reparations. Cf. folios 1108 to 1258 of Tome V of the file on merits and possible reparations. 18 19 Cf. folios 1263 to 1287 of Tome V of the file on merits and possible reparations. 20 Cf. folios 1292 to 1350 of Tome V of the file on merits and possible reparations.