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The Judicial Council defends the investigation launched against Arturo Zaldivar

The Federal Judiciary Council (CJF), the administrative body that monitors and sanctions the conduct of judges, has defended the legality of opening an investigation against retired minister Arturo Zaldivar based on an anonymous complaint without evidence. It is a new chapter in the controversy involving Zaldivar, who has been accused of pressuring judges to issue rulings favorable to the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador when he was president of the Supreme Court (2019-2023) Was.

One of the central arguments of Zaldivar’s defense is that the Supreme Court launched an investigation based on an anonymous complaint that did not include evidence, and allegations directly against Minister Norma Pina, President of the Supreme Court and head of the Judiciary. Have been installed. The CJF has argued that, according to judicial rules, all complaints, including anonymous ones, must be presented with evidence. However, the Judiciary has indicated that this rule was reformed in 2020, during the presidency of Zaldívar himself, to relax the requirement that complaints must be accompanied by evidence.

“(As an improvement) it is anticipated that if complaints indicate circumstances of time, manner and place that allow us to notice signs of conduct potentially constituting administrative responsibility, then the investigation The order may be made even if “there is” no evidence connected to the complaint, but the materials show circumstantial indications of the manner, time and place; 362 anonymous complaints since 2018. Investigation has been initiated on the basis of this,” the CJF said.

The judiciary says it has ordered an internal investigation to be launched against Zaldivar into the leaking of the agreement, which is another of the claims made by the retired minister.