The Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, announced Friday the implementation of a protocol around cases of criminal investigations, to guarantee due process and combat corruption in this organ of the citizen power.
During a day of the “The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) attends your complaint”, from the Caracas Cathedral Parish, the Venezuelan prosecutor said that the attention protocol seeks to “protect ethics and transparency in due process”.
In this regard, he pointed out that: “It is strictly prohibited for any general director, line director, national or superior fiscal, or official of the Public Ministry, to receive in your office prosecutors, or in institutional dependencies, outside the formal procedural acts.”
The regulations also prohibited meetings between MP officials with “private lawyers, be members of law firm, (…) With this measure, what is sought is to prevent any conflict of interest in the investigation,” he said.
According to national media, in recent years, 544 prosecutors linked to corruption acts were prosecuted, of which 349 were charged and 18 convicted.
The MP goes to your community
Saab explained that, on the day this Friday, 620 people were attended, with 430 cases of people deprived of liberty, 32 complaints linked to “disturbance, theft, invasion, injuries, extortion, documents forge, undue appropriation and cruel treatment.”
“We have made 123 orientations, of which 41 are causes that are not criminal, 35 are reference to other agencies, 47 problems of neighborhood coexistence, 23 agilizations of causes and 12 requests for legal assistance,” he said.
“The Public Ministry attends your complaint” is a permanent project of the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office that pays free attention to the different communities of the country.
