The national prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, commented that there was not necessarily fraud in those who requested the Middle Class Bonus and it was not their responsibility to receive it, since the application process was not very strict. His statements generated criticism in Chile Vamos and support in a sector of the Opposition.
Reactions continue after the fact that more than 437 thousand people applied for the Middle Class Bonus, being that this did not correspond to them. The above since they presented differences between the amount that they self-declared as taxable salary of July 2020, at the time of requesting the bonus, and the real calculated from their mandatory social security contributions or from what is actually received.
Of the total number of people who illegally requested the bonus, 37 thousand are public officials, which generated even more reproaches.
The national prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, referred to the problem and commented that not necessarily the people who requested the benefit wrongly did so fraudulently, since andThe application process was not very strict.
In the same vein, the deputy of the Social Green Regionalist Federation party, Jaime Mulet, who during the week presented a bill that seeks grant amnesty to those who illegally requested the benefit, agreed with Abbott that there was not necessarily intent.
From Chile Vamos reacted harshly to the words of the national prosecutor. The deputy for National Renovation and head of his party, Sebastián Torrealba, called Abbott to focus on doing your job and prosecute those who violate the law.
It should be remembered that last Tuesday, Torrealba, together with the heads of the Evópoli and the UDI bench in the Chamber, Luciano Cruz Coke and María José Hoffman, sent a letter to the National Prosecutor to request that criminally prosecute those who illegally received the bonus middle class.
