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the Investigation of Assets and Transparency. It was decided to maintain and change some
functions set out in the previous regulations and create new responsibilities with a view to
promoting and implementing mechanisms to enhance transparency in the Public
Prosecution Service in relation to the institutional management of financial resources,
developing actions aimed at preventing corruption in the institution, strengthening the right
to access to information in the applicable national and internal normative frameworks,
promoting public ethics, organizing, planning and supporting the highest executive
authority with public accountability and promoting transparency actions with social actors,
all of which is in compliance with national regulations governing transparency in public
institutions. These functions are based on:
• The Inter-American Convention against Corruption – ratified by Bolivia through Act
No. 1743 of 17 January 1997
• The United Nations Convention against Corruption – ratified by Bolivia through Act
No. 3068 of 1 June 2005
• The Political Constitution of 7 February 2009
• Act No. 341 on social participation and oversight of 5 February 2013
• Supreme Decree No. 214 of 22 July 2009
• Act No. 004 on combating corruption and illicit enrichment and investigation of
assets, “Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz”, of 31 March 2010
• Organic Act No. 260 on the Public Prosecution Service of 11 July 2012
• The Code of Ethics of the Public Prosecution Service of 21 July 2014
225. On 4 September 2017, Act No. 974 on the Transparency and Anti-Corruption Unit
was promulgated. The Unit on the Investigation of Assets and Transparency is in the
process of amending its internal regulations with a view to fulfilling the responsibilities and
functions set out in the Act, which aims to prevent and combat corruption in public
institutions. Work is under way to implement the Act.
226. Concerning paragraph 111 (c) of the report on the protection of victims and
witnesses of crimes of ill-treatment or torture, the Directorate for the Protection of Victims
and Witnesses reports that each Departmental Prosecutor’s office has staff specialized in
social work and psychology who make up the interdisciplinary team of the Unit for the
Protection of Victims and Witnesses, whose purpose is to provide information, assistance
and protection to victims, witnesses and members of the Public Prosecution Service, as well
as support for criminal prosecution in each Departmental Prosecutor’s office, in accordance
with the Unit’s guidelines, approved by the Prosecutor General through resolution
FGE/RJGP/DAJ No. 190/2017.
227. Among the key elements of the Unit’s guidelines is the prioritization of support
based on the following criteria:
(a)
By type of victim: children or adolescents with disabilities, children or
adolescents as opposed to adults, adults with disabilities, pregnant women; if the victims
are adults of the same gender, the older adult will be attended to first, if not, women will be
attended to before men;
(b)
By origin of the person concerned: foreigners, rural population and the rest of
the population;
(c)
By type of crime: trafficking in persons, sexual crimes, gender-based
violence, homicide and femicide, violent crimes and other crimes. In the framework of the
2017 annual operating plan, a programme for the protection of victims and witnesses is
being developed, taking into consideration the responsibilities conferred on the Directorate
by Act Nos. 260 and 548, which will become the Directorate’s reference framework for
work in this area.
228. With regard to paragraph 29 (d) of the report on delays and breaches of procedural
time limits, these are classified as disciplinary offences in articles 120.3 and 121.5 of the
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