The Plenary National Board of Justice (JNJ) today acquitted the president of the Judiciary, Javier Arevaloof the disciplinary procedure that was initiated for the hiring of his brother in the National Election Jury (JNE).
The rapporteur for the case, Henry Ávila, proposed to dismiss the report made by his colleague Guillermo Thornberry, who proposed the dismissal of Arévalo from the position of supreme judge for not denouncing his brother Armando Arévalo.
Thornberry argued that the magistrate, as a senior official, should have warned that his relative was prevented from contracting with the JNE because article 11 of the State Procurement Law so states.
Along these lines, Ávila indicated that it has not been proven that the supreme judge knew that Armando Arévalo contracted with the electoral body between April 2017 and July 2018.
“That the brother is an older and independent person rules out that the investigated Javier Arévalo had to have surveillance work on his family member,” he said.
After exposing these conclusions, the Plenary of the JNJ voted unanimously to file the process against the head of the Supreme Court.
