The Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against Cultural Heritage of the Public Ministry (MP) sent a letter to the president of the Constitutional Court (CC), Gladys Anabella Morfín, so that, no later than April 20, she sends information related to the inauguration of the head magistrate of the CC, Astrid Lemus.
The information was requested from the president of the Constitutional Court on August 18 by the section prosecutor, Ángel Saúl Sánchez Molina, who is in charge of the investigation of the case called “Takeover of the Usac”, which is investigated by the aforementioned prosecutor’s office.
According to the letter sent by Sánchez, the following information is requested from the president of the CC:
“Act, resolution, agreement or respective document of taking possession of the position of the titular magistrate of the Constitutional Court of whom at this time it is indicated:
Astrid Jeannette Lemus Rodríguez”, it is indicated.
In the job too The president of the CC is requested to send the required information no later than April 20 at 11 a.m. to the third west street, lot 32, Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez, address where the headquarters of the Patrimonial Crimes Prosecutor’s Office is located.
At the moment, it has not been made known by the MP whether the information requested to the president of the Constitutional Court, Anabella Morfín, It is related to the case of the seizure of the central campus of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, which occurred in 2022, or if it is linked to any other investigation.
In previous days, prior to the inauguration of the new magistrates of the Constitutional Court on April 14, The MP sought to take legal action against the judge Astrid Lemuselected to the position representing the College of Lawyers and Notaries of Guatemala (Cang).
A file against Astrid Lemus was raised to the Third Criminal Chamber, judicial instance that months ago authorized issuing arrest warrants against personnel of the defunct CICIG.
During the Cang election, held in February, voting centers in Guatemala City were subject to a series of raids for a case under reserve, for which, according to some sources, they would have been seeking the issuance of an arrest warrant against Lemus prior to taking office in the CC.
This case is assigned to the Sixth Criminal Court, a judiciary that would not have resolved favorably to the MP.
Given this, the investigating entity would have challenged the judge in charge of the case, but he chose to recuse himself after being accused of lack of objectivity, which caused the file, for reasons of jurisdiction, to be assigned to the Third Criminal Chamber.