Bermúdez Ardila. The first refers to the information that Mr. Carvajal Carvajal allegedly had regarding an arms-trafficking network. The second had to do with the construction of defective housing in the area. The other hypotheses link the assassination to the “Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia” (FARC) and a gang of local criminals. 14. The complainant indicates that after the assassination, the Office of the Twenty-Second Prosecutor before the Criminal Circuit Courts in Pitalito formally opened the investigation into Carlos Andrés Correa Meneses, as the alleged material perpetrator of the crime, based on a report by the Technical Corps of the local Office of the Prosecutor. The case was forwarded to the Office of the Prosecutor before the Regional Judges, based in Bogotá, which by resolution of May 10, 1998, ordered the pre-trial detention of Mr. Correa Meneses. On December 28, 1998, the Office of the Prosecutor (Fiscalía Delegada) considered that there was not sufficient evidence to link Mr. Correa Meneses to the murder, and it was ordered that he be released immediately. On December 29, 1998, the same Office of the Prosecutor began a new investigation, leading to the indictment of Messrs. Fernando Bermúdez Ardila, Marco Fidel Collazos, Ramiro Falla Cueca, and Víctor Félix Trujillo Calderon, as the direct perpetrators and masterminds of the crime, and they were arrested for pre-trial detention. On February 19, 1999, Mr. Alfaro Quintero Alvarado was included in the investigation and also arrested for pre-trial detention. 15. The petitioner indicates that afterwards Messrs. Bermúdez, Collazos, and Falla pleaded before the respective Office of the Prosecutor before the Regional Courts that the arrest warrants for them be revoked; these motions were denied. On November 2, 1999, after that decision was appealed, the Unit before the Superior Court of Bogotá, Chamber for Clearing up Backlog (Unidad Delegada ante el Tribunal Superior de Santa Fé de Bogotá, Sala Penal de Descongestión), ordered the release of Mr. Falla. Similarly, on December 10, 1999, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Fiscalía Especializada) overturned the order to have Mr. Collazos held in pre-trial detention. 16. The petitioner adds that on January 17, 2000, the Office of the Prosecutor before the Criminal Judges of the Specialized Circuits brought criminal indictments against Messrs. Bermúdez, Trujillo, and Quintero for the assassination. This began a judicial proceeding in which Mr. Fernando Bermúdez Ardila was charged with masterminding the crime, and Messrs. Víctor Félix Trujillo Calderón and Alfaro Quintero Alvarado were charged as the direct perpetrators, based on the second of the aforementioned hypotheses. The judicial proceedings in the trial stage 4