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On September 19, 2017, a group of people took $ 15.8 billion in cash and $ 200 million in checks from a securities transportation company in Independencia. That time, the guards who were guarding the money said they were victims, but in March of this year they acknowledged that they were part of the planning of the assault. The police already had suspicions of their participation and their statements contributed to confirm who the rest of the members of the group were.
The OS-9 of the Carabineros detained them on Tuesday and the prosecutor Marcelo Carbrera formalized them for illicit association, receipt of cars and patents, theft in a container of money and money laundering. At the hearing, he detailed a series of goods that the defendants acquired after the robbery. For example, he said that Pablo Cordero bought six vehicles, in addition to registering another four in the name of frontmen and bought three properties, one of them located in Maipú for $ 312 million, of which he paid $ 250 million in cash. According to the prosecutor, Claudio Pino acquired 11 vehicles, including two Porsche and two Audi, in addition to registering another 11 cars in the name of third parties and paid for four properties. Thus, Cabrera detailed one by one in what they were spending the money allegedly obtained as a result of the millionaire robbery.
However, these and other evidence were not enough for the court to decide to give preventive detention to the 10 defendants for whom the prosecutor had requested the maximum precautionary measure. “The magistrate at the hearing did not precisely detail the information for which she did not give rise, but the information that she would have provided has to do specifically with the fact that she did not prove that the illicit association had been formed (…) We believe that if there is sufficient information, for this and for this purpose, then, she began to discard the other crimes that would have been committed in this context of the illicit association, ”said the prosecutor Cabrera on Friday.
In the midst of this scenario, the Carabineros, together with the prosecution, are calculating how much of the loot has been rescued. According to sources in the case, initially the estimate that has been recovered is more than $ 600 million in personal property (generally cars). Not counting the appraisal of property, amounting to about $ 1.4 billion. With that, the researchers calculate they should exceed $ 2 billion. That is, so far they have at least one 12.5% of the total stolen. According to the same sources, some money was found, but not large sums.
Former prosecutor Pedro Orthusteguy explains that “in cases in which the stolen property is money and it is not recovered in time by the police to return it to its owner, it is very difficult to set up a crime later. The first difficulty is the prescription of criminal action, every day that passes runs in favor of the perpetrators and, the second, is that with respect to the accused detained without money once they serve their sentence they can use it relatively calmly, by the beginning nin idemIn other words, he cannot be tried twice for the same act ”.
In the other two millionaire robberies registered in the country, much of the money has not been recovered either.
For example, in the last assault at the Santiago airport that occurred last March, where $ 13 billion were taken, in total they have managed to recover about $ 250 million in cash, said Sub-prefect Luis Salazar, head of the Investigation Brigade Thefts (Biro) of the PDI. He explained that since the arrests were made months after the robbery, the defendants would not have been able to buy many goods, as was the case in 2017. In any case, the prosecutor Eduardo Baeza asked the PDI Asset Laundering Brigade conduct an analysis on the properties acquired by the band.
Another of the largest robberies occurred in 2014, when $ 6 billion was taken from the air terminal. The gang was convicted in 2015, a date on which no more than 10% of what was stolen had been recovered.
