Communication and Information minister Yuri Pimentel Wednesday vowed to ask the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) to conduct an investigation "for the purposes of punishing" any media that violates an order banning disclosure of the judicial investigation into the murder of public prosecutor Danilo Anderson.

He said he would call for imposition of fines amounting to up to two percent of gross revenues of the relevant media.

Pimentel appeared Wednesday before the National Assembly Science, Technology and Media Committee. He explained that punishments could be imposed on the media broadcasting messages calling people to disobey the laws and obstructing law enforcement by state security corps and the judiciary.