Assemblyman Édgar Quezada (PK) confirms that there were last minute changes in the report and this November 24, he must render a version to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The president of the Constitutional Guarantees Commission, José Cabascango (PK), delivered to the State Attorney General’s Office the information required within the preliminary investigation that began for the alleged crime of public action on the alleged last-minute changes to the report on the Pandora Papers case.
However, in the session of this November 23, the legislators of the table questioned that Cabascango had responded to the Prosecutor’s Office, which should have been the plenary session of the legislature that resolved the case, since the assembly members consider that it is an interference with inspection activity.
Cabascango said that he handed over the documentation because the commission has nothing to hide, the parliamentary procedure has been followed, which may generate concerns for some assembly members.
On November 19, the president of the Guarantee Commission delivered the following papers: certified copy of the investigation report of the case called Pandora Papers approved in ordinary session 043, constant at 156 pages; certified copy of the minutes of session 043; and, certified copy of the audio of session 043.
For this November 24, at 11:00, the Attorney General’s Office called the legislator Édgar Quezada (PK) to appear, to render his version free and without oath on the facts under investigation. This diligence will be carried out at the Prosecutor’s Office No. 4 of the National Court Jurisdiction Unit.
Investigation of possible irregularities in last minute changes in the Legislative Commission’s report on the Pandora Papers case
Legislator Paola Cabezas (UNES) commented that there should have been an institutional response to “the rude interference of the State Attorney General’s Office, this is pulled by the hair,” he noted.
He said that there are no criminals in the commission, that they have not committed any crime, that the Prosecutor’s Office is located, that this case should have been dealt with in the plenary session of the Assembly.
He warned that the prosecution’s claim is to invalidate a legal and constitutional action carried out by the commission, and that the president of the legislature, Guadalupe Llori, cannot continue to “remove the body, she has to make us respect it.”
The legislator Mario Ruiz Jácome (PK) also expressed his rejection of the action of the Prosecutor’s Office and affirmed that the report made by the Constitutional Guarantees Commission was within the exercise of its functions.
That on the day of the vote the report was read in its entirety and after that the vote was taken, that at the time that article 130.2 of the Constitution of the Republic was included, the defenders of the Government came out and brand them as coup plotters and sedition.
Instead, Quezada confirmed his statements about the last minute changes to the report, adding that the only thing he has said is the truth, because the report that was presented for approval did not include the recommendations. And that even with his co-leader Sofía Sánchez they were going to make a minority report for disagreeing.
He complained that they did not give him the 10,000 sheets of documentation that arrived on the case, that even the president of the table told him that he had to pay for the copies in order to have access. That such documentation was not known in the commission either.
He stated that at the last minute the session was suspended, that he never knew where and who met, but then the conclusions and recommendations were presented. That he voted in favor because the president of the table is a comrade of the movement.
Fernanda Astudillo (UNES) pointed out that the assembly members who maintain that there were changes in the report on Pandora Papers must prove it, since the transmission was live. That it is immoral that assembly members come out to say that there were changes.
Virgilio Saquicela (BAN) confirmed that the majority report on the Pandora Papers does not have legal, legal or constitutional support, because it does not present the truth of what was allegedly investigated. That the commission never read one of the 12 million documents that the Pandora Papers file leak claims to have.
However, he affirmed that the Prosecutor’s Office cannot supervise the Constitutional Guarantees Commission, since they are skipping the steps, since it will be the plenary session of the Assembly that decides whether to approve the majority or minority report. He said he does not share that Cabascango has sent the information on the case to the Prosecutor’s Office, when the full Assembly should have done so.
Sofía Sánchez once again pointed out that for the report on Pandora Papers there was no debate, that the floor was not granted to publicize the position regarding the proposal. That not all the assembly members participated in the preparation of the report, because they never received the proof and the 10,000 pages attached to the report, which was known after approval.
Meanwhile, legislator Patricia Sánchez, also from Pachakutik, proposed in plenary session a change to the agenda of session 742 to discuss a resolution to reject an interference by the State Attorney General’s Office in the powers of inspection of the National Assembly, regarding the investigation on Pandora Papers. The resolution did not obtain the support of votes. (I)
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