The Court of First Instance in charge of control at the national level, agreed to the arrest warrant against former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia for serious crimes and commissioned the CICPC to execute said decree.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office’s document 100-24, the crimes with which González Urrutia is charged are: usurpation of functions, provided for and punished in article 213, forgery of public documents, provided for and punished in article 319, instigation to disobedience of laws, provided for and punished in article 283, conspiracy, provided for and punished in article 132, all of the Penal Code, sabotage to damage systems, provided for and punished in article 7 of the computer crimes law, association, provided for and punished in article 37 of the organic law against organized crime and financing of terrorism.
According to the text of the document, once the aforementioned citizen has been arrested, he must be immediately placed at the disposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, who in turn must present him before this jurisdictional body within forty-eight (48) hours following his arrest, “after notifying the Public Prosecutor’s Office, in order to hold the oral hearing in the presence of the parties and resolve what is appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the second section of article 236 of the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure.
