Overview
- Lawmakers approved the resolution by 50 votes in favor, 21 against and 8 abstentions, authorizing the formation of a criminal case and lifting functional immunity.
- Salas Arenas, a Supreme Court magistrate and former head of the JNE, is accused as the presumed instigator of negotiation incompatible or improper use of office under Article 399.
- The complaint cites a call in which he allegedly asked ex-judge Walter Ríos to hire his former secretary, Pavel Cárdenas, linking the matter to the ‘Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto’ network.
- Constitutional Denunciation No. 469 was presented by former interim prosecutor general Juan Carlos Villena and draws on statements from Walter Ríos.
- Defense attorney Elí Vidal rejects the allegations and argues exculpatory testimony was not properly evaluated as the case now passes to the Fiscalía de la Nación.