On this day the Attorney General of Nation, Eduardo Montealegre Lynett, sent a letter to the Prosecutor, Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado, in which he requested to initiate internal disciplinary investigations to establish the responsibilities for actions advanced by the prosecution in a notary of Bogota in which officials of the Prosecutor office inquired by diligences that the Attorney General made in this notary as lawyer before hold the position as head of the accusing entity.
In the letter, the Attorney Montealegre Lynett indicated to the Prosecutor that the visit to the notary was unconstitutional and illegal, especially because the jurisdiction of the Attorney General requires to the Accusations Commission to investigate him.
The letter says that the investigation of a constitutional volumetric is not competence of the public prosecutor and the visit made in the notary “is unconstitutional and illegal from any point of view” and constitutes an abuse of functions.
He also stressed that the defence of the immunity of the Attorney General of the nation is not anything other than the defense of the Constitution, the autonomy and judicial independence and the system of checks and balances.
Finally the senior official reminded the Prosecutor Ordóñez that “the Prosecutor General’s Office is constitutionally designed to defend the rights of Colombians, not to violate them.”
The Attorney General attached to the missive the documentation on which was the requirement on the visit and that is published on the website of the company, from November 14, 2013.