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The prosecutor Emiliano Arias He referred this Friday to the closure of the investigation of the Asipes case, leaving the case without responsible and acquitting more than 50 defendants in the case.
Arias was the first prosecutor to take up the case, which was originally a corner of the Corpesca case, noting that the decision of the national prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, to separate Asipes from the mother case would have sealed the fate of the investigation.
“The new national prosecutor (referring to Abbott) decided to separate everything that was investigated together and in this way the procedural fate of the case was sealed “, Held.
Arias pointed directly to the national prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, about the closure of the case, ensuring that with his arrival at the Public Ministry in 2015, he changed the way of investigating cases of irregular financing of politics.
“Once Corpesca was assigned to me, and after a first analysis that we did together with the police, we were able to verify the same contribution mechanism in some fisheries in the south, Asipes and others in the southern zone -Fipes-, consistent with the same type of Corpesca mechanism ”, he said in an interview with The Clinic.
“Faced with indications of the commission of crimes associated with the illegal financing of politics, I opened these investigations in order to investigate with the same team of the Public Ministry and the police, the same phenomenon, which was the illegal financing of the policy by some organizations in the fishing industry. But changed the time and the way of investigating and understanding the investigation by changing the national prosecutor “.
The case went through at least three prosecutors: Arias, then Julio Contardo – who went from the Bío Bío Prosecutor’s Office to Maule and now Marcela Cartagena, who referred the case to the Anticorruption prosecutor, María José Aguayo, the proceedings from 2018.
As reported by BioBioChile.cl, the Bío Bío regional prosecutor, Marcela Cartagena, resolved the closure of the investigation in the Asipes edge and investigated the contributions of industrial fishing vessels to the campaigns of current and former parliamentarians in the region.
The most striking fact of the investigation was when it was leaked that the president of Asipes, Luis Felipe Moncada, was setting the guidelines for the law presented by Senator Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe.
Unofficially, it was known that by not having collected evidence for an accusation against the people involved, the Public Ministry decided to dismiss some defendants while in favor of others the power not to persevere will be invoked, with which this investigation opened in 2017 ends without responsible.
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