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For February 2, 2021 at 9:00 in the morning, the JEP magistrate is summoned to respond to a complaint filed by a political scientist who, paradoxically, worked in the special jurisdiction by appointment of Hyeck.
The magistrate of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), Caterina Hyeck, was summoned by the Indictment Commission of the House of Representatives to appear in a free version on February 2 of next year, at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. This time, the official will deliver her version of a complaint filed by the political scientist Carolina Suárez Baquero, who worked in the JEP’s Analysis and Context Group (Grai) by appointment, precisely, of Judge Hyeck.
In a recent public statement, the togada indicated at the end of 2018 that she nominated Carolina Suárez to join the Information Analysis Group (Grai). The political scientist obtained a position in that unit and began to work. However, the members of the Grai, despite being appointed by magistrates, are accountable to the director of the Group and not to the offices directly.
Then, already within the JEP, the former official began to have difficulties with the director of Grai and some coworkers, whom she denounced for workplace harassment, Hyeck said in her recent statement. “I requested written reports from Carolina Suárez and her boss, who reported disagreements with her work performance and attitude, as well as inconsistencies and serious errors in several of the documents prepared by her,” said the magistrate.
In view of the situation, it seemed to the magistrate that it was best to ask Suárez to resign, instead of reporting it and having it declared non-subsistent. Hyeck indicated that Carolina Suárez agreed to resign, even thanked him, and asked for a period of one month to present the resignation. “On Friday, July 26, 2019, I requested the resignation of Carolina Suárez, who asked me for a period of one month to leave office. The following Monday, July 29, he sent me a kind message of gratitude on WhatsApp for the opportunity offered, in which he announced that he had the letter of resignation ready and insisted on the request for a month to leave office, “said the The document.
But, the truth is that on July 30, 2019, the political scientist filed a complaint for workplace harassment against Fernando Vargas, some colleagues, and Judge Hyeck. Regarding the latter, Carolina Suárez said that the request to surrender the position was due to “constant and undue pressure to present her resignation, using a threatening tone that made her feel attacked, violated and coerced.” In addition, he alleged that he had an institutional jurisdiction that protected his work continuity. (Also read: The arguments of the JEP magistrates who do want to review the Uscátegui case)
However, the JEP Labor Coexistence Committee, which analyzed the case, defined that it had no competence to declare any kind of jurisdiction and that “there is a legal and regulatory power that assists the magistrate to request a position of free appointment and removal. Ultimately, the process for alleged workplace harassment was closed, Carolina Suárez was declared non-subsistent and left the JEP. However, before her departure, the political scientist, at the hands of the lawyer Jaime Granados, initiated a series of criminal and disciplinary actions against the magistrate.
The convulsed 2020 was just beginning, when the magistrate learned that there was a complaint against her related to Carolina Suárez. At that time, he believed that it was a disciplinary matter for having asked the political scientist to resign. But, at the end of May, he received an email from Congress with a summons to his assistant magistrate, Felipe Carranza, and learned that it was a criminal complaint, filed by the lawyer Jaime Granados, as representative of Suárez, for the crime of illegal restraint.
Hyeck requested that the hearing in which Felipe Carranza would appear be postponed because he needed to find a criminal lawyer and grant him the corresponding power of attorney. In effect, the Indictment Commission, with the endorsement of representative Mauricio Toro, who is in charge of the investigation, agreed and they rescheduled the procedure. However, for attorney Jaime Granados it was not valid for the magistrate to request a rescheduling, arguing that she did not know that the process against her was criminal, so she filed a new complaint against her for procedural fraud. (You may be interested in: The suspicions that already revolved around the prosecutor Rodrigo Aldana)
But the matter does not end there. Granados also denounced her disciplinary because, according to him, Hyeck exceeded his functions as a JEP magistrate when on January 29, 2020 he sent his assistant magistrate Felipe Carranza to a hearing in the Indictment Commission in which Carolina Suárez was already going to expand expose the facts that motivated the complaint for illegal constraint against the magistrate. According to Jaime Granados, Caterina Hyeck “allegedly failed to fulfill the duties and functions of her position by having acted arbitrarily, assigning functions to Mr. Carranza of different aspects to the aims and nature of the JEP.”
In summary, the magistrate has three complaints related to these events, two criminal and one disciplinary. “The first corresponds to the crime of illegal restraint, for having requested his resignation. The second, due to procedural fraud, having requested the postponement of a diligence before the Accusation Commission. The third, for abuse and excess of duties, for entrusting an Assistant Magistrate of my office to hand over the power that I conferred on a lawyer, on the day of the extension of Carolina Suárez’s complaint to that Commission, given my inability to do so personally ”Says the statement. (Related article: JEP launches book on the work of its magistrates)
Judge Hyeck concluded that “in the absence of factual and legal bases for the complaints presented by Carolina Suárez and her lawyer Jaime Granados, in addition to the impact that this entails on a personal, professional and institutional level, I will present the corresponding complaints, both disciplinary and criminal, for bad professional practices and for the crime of false reporting. “
Here is the full statement from Judge Caterina Hyeck.
