Supreme Court Judge José Ayú Prado, who in spite of the overload of unresolved cases has never been known to turn down a travel opportunity. A few days after returning from a Central America jaunt applied for leave with salary to will attend a "specialized course in organized crime, corruption and terrorism" to be held at the University of Salamanca, Spain, from June 10 to 26.

In a note addressed to the presiding magistrate Hernán De León , on February 26, Ayú Prado said  that he accepted the "invitation" from the General Foundation of the University of Salamanca, and asked for the instructions "to be granted a license with Right to salary, , acquisition of air ticket and transfer by land [round trip] and the per diem of lodging and food “

In his note, Ayú Prado recalled that last January he was invited by the same university to an intellectual property course, but could not participate because it coincided with another "invitation" to travel -this time to China- and because his personal substitute was not available for that date.

On May 28, the plenary session of the Court granted Ayú Prado the leave with salary and that same day, her deputy was called to take care of the office while the absence lasted, "with a monthly salary of $ 6,000   plus expenses of representation of   $4,000. "

The decision was questioned by Judge magistrate Harry Díaz, since granting a license to the magistrates to carry out long-term studies "hinders" the functioning of the work of the plenary session.

Díaz also observed that the "invitation" to Ayú Prado entails allocating the institution's own resources to cover the costs of tuition, passage, transfers, lodging, food and travel expenses.

Ayú Prado has been president of the Court twice: from 2014-2015 and 2016-2017. In his its first mandate, the state body disbursed almost one million dollars in travel of judicial and administrative officials: ($995731.84,  Then Ayú Prado defended the trips, with the argument that they encourage international cooperation and training.

In 2016, the  Citizens Alliance for Justice filed a complaint to investigate the travel and travel expenses of Ayú Prado and the judges  Hernán De León and Luis Ramón Fábrega, then presidents of the Civil and Contentious Administrative Chamber, respectively.

TheAlliance alleged that the three are the judges who accumulated the most miles: from 2012 to 2015, were Ayú Prado( 23 trips); Fábrega (17), and De León (16).