Walter Espinoza, director of the Judicial Investigative Police (OIJ) explained that after conducting the necessary investigations regarding David Patey’s allegations that a police agent tried to sell him a confidential file, they were not able to determine who this person was.

Espinoza explained that back in November 2017, he received a phone call on his cell phone from David Patey, who told him had gotten his number from congressman Otton Solis, and told him he had “important, vital and significant information” that could “affect the security of one or many cases of the OIJ”.

Considering the gravity of Patey’s words he agreed to meet with Patey that same day in the offices of the OIJ, two other members of the judicial police were present in the meeting where Patey informed them that someone was trying to sell him information. “He described a man who was supposedly an OIJ agent. He described the man, told us how he was dressed. Told us that he showed him a police badge in a brown wallet, the man had tattoos and was asking him (Patey) for money, which he was not giving him”.

Espinoza confirms that an administrative investigation was opened in order to identify the man described.
“He (Patey) never filed an official report, he came to us to tell us something that made sense to open an investigation, which we did, but nothing was established and the case was closed”, said the OIJ chief.

Patey stated yesterday during a press conference that his file was the same file related to the arrest of two OIJ agents back in February; however, Espinoza denied this and said Patey has no relation at all with the arrest of two agents from the Police Unit of Recollection of the Office of Plans and Operations (OPO) of the OIJ that were arrested in February for supposedly trying to sell a file related to organized crime.