Congress will debate a bill today that aims to punish leaking statements from effective employees to the press.

Today, at the plenary session of the Congress, a bill will be discussed that proposes to amend 3 articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure regarding the special procedure effective cooperation. This legislative initiative was presented by the Court of Podemos Peru with the authorship of a congressman. Maria Theresa Cabrera Vega,

The bill, among other things, proposes criminal sanctions for prosecutors who “filter” statements effective employees and applicants for this condition in mass media.

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The bill was introduced on October 26 last year by congressmen from We can Peruincluding congressman Joseph Moonis currently under prosecution. In addition, this opinion was unanimously approved on January 24 by the Parliamentary Commission on Justice, which was then chaired by Gladys Echaise.

Legislative Initiative Criminalizes Prosecutors Who Fail to “Protect the Secrecy of the Trial” in Which They Are Involved effective employees with the leak of his statements in Click.

“The prosecutor is responsible for and keeps the documentation of the process and the identity of the applicant, must take all necessary measures to prevent its disclosure and filtration their statements on the social network, which is criminal and should be avoided,” the bill says.

In addition, it establishes that the prosecutor is the only one who will know the identity and testimony of the accused. effective employeeother than the defender, by means of a code and must “take all necessary measures to preserve his secret and, in particular, to prevent the disclosure of the identity of the applicant for cooperation.”

“So painful leaks declarations of applicants and employees published in social mediawhere we are surprised to read a facsimile of his statements in full and that this is done with complete impunity,” the document says.

In turn, the bill proposes not to use the statements of applicants for effective collaborators until such statements are “confirmed” and they have “court-approved agreements.”

“Declaring an applicant as an effective employee is always suspicious because he is seeking benefits or rewards in a criminal manner, for this reason he does not deserve more trust and needs confirmation and judicial approval. This situation violates all due process guarantees because it’s a privilege, so it’s only the “said” of a confessed offender,” the proposed rule says.

In other words, in court cases, the initiative proposes to prohibit “the use of these declarations by applicants for effective employeesunless they are properly verified and do not have court-approved agreements.”

Also from the Executive

It is worth noting that the premiere took place on June 25 Hannibal Torres announced that the Executive Branch has submitted a bill to Congress that would make disclosure of criminal tax information a crime.

“A bill has been passed that makes it a crime to disclose confidential information in a criminal investigation. A criminal investigation at its preliminary stage is confidential. It ceases to be confidential when it proceeds to oral proceedings. no reservations,” Torres said at a press conference that day.

prime minister claimed that the purpose was to prevent disclosure reserved information and specified that the sanction would be four years in prison.

“Today, it happens that in the course of investigations, classified information quickly becomes public. Sometimes information is selected with the aim of imputing the commission of a crime. This shouldn’t happen. That is why we are presented Congress bill to end this method of practical commercialization of reserved criminal information. And this is even sanctioned in some cases by four years in prison,” he added.

This executive initiative has been criticized by various journalistic associations such as the Institute of Press and Society (IPYS) and the Federation of Journalists of Peru, as well as other sectors of civil society, for seeing it as an “attack” on press freedom.

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