Former Attorney General of Public Ethics, Gilberth Calderón, believes that the resolution sent to the Legislative Assembly on the case of former President Luis Guillermo Solís’ involvement in the cementazo scandal should not have been confidential.
The document sent by the Attorney General’s Office on April 26th was classified as confidential, although Calderón emphasized that only the reports are confidential and not the resolutions. These comments were issued on Monday morning in the Commission that analyzes the case in the Legislative Assembly, where Calderón was asked how he would have handled this case.
At that time, the institution sent the document to the Assembly, despite the fact that they were readjusting for the arrival of the new legislators. In addition, the Legislative Directory no longer received notifications and therefore, the notifier went to the Executive Direction as a security officer recommended.
However, Calderón deemed it inappropriate, since they could have waited a few days, because that would not have involved any substantial change in the resolution.
Due to these decisions, neither the congressmen who were leaving nor the new ones who began their functions on May 1st, could challenge the decision of the Attorney General, since the deadline to do so was May 3rd; however, it wasn’t until the end of that month that the legislators had the report in their hands.
The document saved Solís from lack of probity due to his possible involvement in the so called Cementazo scandal, following an investigation carried out as part of the final recommendations from the legislators that made the Commission to study this case last year.
The forum is in the last stage of hearings to culminate the process, for which they granted one more month to issue a report with the final observations.
To clarify the issue, the Commission called a former prosecutor who was involved in the case of Rónald Víquez, as well as the current leader Tatiana Gutiérrez, Carmen Quesada and Gonzalo Ramírez, members of the previous Legislative Assembly who saw the document presented by the Procurator’s Office on April 30th, accompanied by Antonio Ayales, Executive Director of the Legislative Assembly.