On January 3, 2017, the President Evo Morales announced a number of legal reforms to be presented by the government to Congress, which focus primarily on decreasing the judicial delay and strengthening the fight against corruption. One proposal is a new systemized Criminal Code which, as an innovative reform, will allow the use of undercover agents in corruption investigations.
The current Criminal Code (Law No. 1970/1999) permits the use of undercover agents only in investigations into drug trafficking and human trafficking. Other regulations permit their use in the supervision of public transportation (Supreme Decree 240/2010) and internal police investigations (2011 Disciplinary Code for Police Forces).
The proposed reform emerges from the conclusions of the National Justice Summit that took Place in Sucre, Bolivia in June of 2016. The draft law is expected to be submitted to Congress in the coming weeks.
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