E/CN.4/2000/9 page 61 informed it that it was awaiting information from the prosecutor's offices of Cundinamarca, Chocó and Chaquetá, where the events in question took place, and would report thereon in due course. 284. With regard to the case of Alberto Usma and a youth called Miguel (E/CN.4/1999/61, para. 150), the Government indicated that the National Police had advised it that, having requested information from the Offices of the Attorney-General of the Nation, the Public Counsel-General and the Municipal Attorney, it had been informed that there was no record of charges or investigations in the case. The Office of the Coordinating Prosecutor for Specialized Criminal Circuit Courts in Medellín, the Specialized Government Prosecutor's Units in Urabá and the prosecutor's office in Apartadó had likewise indicated that no proceedings were under way. 285. In its letter dated 1 October 1999, the Government replied concerning one of the cases transmitted by the Special Rapporteur in his letter dated 29 October 1998. With regard to Ramón Alfredo Jiménez Duarte (see E/CN.4/1999/61, para. 159), it stated that the Office of the Attorney-General had informed it that after reviewing the action taken in the case, it had not found sufficient evidence, owing to the state of the corpse's decomposition when it was discovered, to show that Mr. Jiménez Duarte had sustained minor but successive injuries before his death. 286. By letters dated 7 October 1999, the Government replied on a number of cases transmitted by the Special Rapporteur in his letter dated 29 May 1995. 287. Concerning Álvaro Martínez Ramírez (E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1, para. 152), the Government indicated that the Office of the Attorney-General of the Nation was informed by the Terrorism Sub-Division of the Office of the Prosecutor for the Specialized Criminal Circuit Courts of Santa Fé de Bogotá that Mr. Martínez Ramírez was under investigation for the crime of homicide with terrorist intent, and that the investigation had been handed over to the competent courts. 288. With regard to the cases of Alba Libia Esquivel and José Albeiro Ortíz (ibid., para. 142), the Government stated that the Office of Public Prosecutors in Santa Fé de Bogotá was investigating both persons for the crime of resisting arrest and that no information on torture of any kind had been provided. The investigation had subsequently been handed over to the regional courts of Santa Fé and proceedings for the suspended sentencing of the two trade union members were under way. The Commander of the Sixth Brigade had indicated that they had been apprehended in line with legal procedures and that there was no charge to justify an investigation. 289. By letters dated 7 October 1999, the Government provided responses on some of the cases transmitted by the Special Rapporteur in his letter dated 29 October 1998. 290. Concerning Héctor Hernán Méndez and Raúl Morales (E/CN.4/1999/61, para. 161), the Government indicated that no investigation of the crime of torture was being carried out by the prosecutor's office in Cundinamarca. The Office of the Prosecutor for Criminal Circuit Courts in Cáqueza-Cundinamarca had suspended the investigation because after a period of over 180 days, there was insufficient proof to implicate any given person.