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The Valdivia Guarantee Court decreed preventive detention for two corporals of the Gendarmerie and national roots and prohibition of entering the prison for a lieutenant of the same institution, by the entry of prohibited items (cell phones) to the Valdivian prison in exchange for money, which determined, in two cases, a relevant and unjustified increase in assets, in which one of the corporals and the lieutenant investigated, in various payments added 14 and 12 million, respectively, in their personal accounts .
The Local Prosecutor’s Office of Valdivia In coordination with the Anti-Narcotics and Organized Crime Brigade of the Investigative Police and with the Gendarmerie Department of Penitentiary Intelligence, they managed to clarify different crimes involving a lieutenant and two second corporals of the penitentiary institution, in addition to a cousin of this Finally, for facilitating the entry of prohibited elements, mainly during visiting hours to the Valdivian prison, between 2019 and 2020.
The foregoing, in exchange for money that was deposited in the bank accounts of the accused, who were arrested after accepting an arrest warrant issued by the Valdvia Guarantee Court, requested by the prosecutor Jaime Clafil.
“At the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, the two formalized Gendarmerie corporals were held in preventive detention, considering that their freedom would constitute a danger to the security of society. The lieutenant was left with national roots and a ban on entering jail, “said prosecutor Clafil.
According to the information confirmed by Radio Bío Bío, the Prosecutor’s Office investigates the Lieutenant of the Gendarmerie for the crime of significant and unjustified increase in assets, for a sum greater than 14 million pesos, receiving in 2019 more than 100 payments made by people who were enrolled to visit inmates.
A second corporal for the same crime, with a sum close to 12 million pesos also through fertilizers, and for a bribery crime and two for illegitimate coercion.
Also, the Prosecutor’s Office investigates another second corporal and his cousin for the crime of bribery, in which the first received parcels with cell phones, chips, hearing aids and batteries, which he entered from jail, in exchange for money that was deposited to your cousin’s bank account.
From Gendarmería
Through a statement, the Gendarmerie confirmed the possible responsibility of the uniformed men.
“Framed in the institutional anti-corruption plan, Chilean Gendarmerie, through the Regional Directorate of the Rivers, confirms that this morning, three gendarmes, one of them an officer and two corporals, were detained for alleged illicit wealth enrichment. All this based on an investigative process initiated from the same Institution, under the procedures generated by the Department of Criminal Investigation (DICRIM), preceded by the complaint, ”the statement said.
They added that “these officials are linked to the entry of mobile phone equipment (cell phones) within the establishment through parcels, in exchange for payments that would have increased its patrimony ”.
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