As part of their activities as public servants, our clients, who worked in the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, traveled on commission to different parts of the country and, therefore, had to render accounts afterwards. However, it was noted that they had allegedly included falsified payment vouchers, for which the Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation. The dispute arose due to an alleged forgery of documents in the travel expense reporting made by officials from the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic.
After evaluating the facts and our arguments proving the illicit origin of the vauchers, the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered the closure of the case, in response to which the Public Attorney’s Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic appealed the decision, and the Superior Prosecutor’s Office reexamined the case and declared the complaint well founded, ordering the provincial prosecutor to formalize the criminal complaint.
Subsequently, the case was sent to the Superior Court of Justice where, after the hearing for the presentation of charges, the judge decided that there was no need to open an instruction due to the extinction of the criminal action, a decision that became final and consented.
