The plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), by means of Agreement No. 664 of December 23, 2021, established that all judicial servants, support and administrative personnel of the Judicial Branch, must present a declaration of patrimonial assets.
The agreement gives a term from January 17 to 31 of this month, so that the officials who work in the judicial, administrative dependencies of the public defense and defenders of the victims of the crime, to complete electronically in their profile of the System Comprehensive Human Resources Management, the sworn declaration form of assets.
The agreement specifies that the measure reaches magistrates of superior courts and appeals; judges; secretaries and undersecretaries; directors and deputy directors; coordinators; public defenders; specialized support, judicial and auxiliary personnel, and personnel from the administrative areas of public defense and the department of free legal assistance for crime victims.
The declaration of patrimonial assets of the judicial servants will be of a restricted nature, will be protected electronically and will only be made known to the Court of Equity and Transparency in the event of an investigation, according to a Judicial source.
Article 200 of Law 53 of August 27, 2015 (which regulates the judicial career) specifies that the servants of the Judicial Branch are obliged to present, upon admission and in the first week of January of each year of work, an asset declaration.
The aforementioned article also states that for these purposes the corresponding forms will be published, in which the class, amount of property owned and the time in which they were acquired must be recorded.
These will be completed electronically and sent to the Investigation and Transparency Unit.
Sources from the Judicial Branch confirmed that the nine magistrates have already presented their declaration of assets, but to date only María Eugenia López Arias, José Ayú Prado, Maribel Cornejo and Carlos Vásquez Reyes have made it public.
