LED Case: Chillán Court confirms preventive detention for judge of Local Police of Pemuco | National



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The Chillán Court of Appeals confirmed this Friday, December 11, the resolution that ordered the preventive detention of the Local Police Judge of Pemuco, Marcelo Campos Henríquez, charged by the Public Ministry as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of bribery and violation of secrecy, illegal activities that were perpetrated in the bidding process for the replacement of LED luminaires for public lighting in the commune.

In a unanimous ruling, the 1st Chamber of the appeal court ratified the contested resolution issued by the San Carlos Guarantee Court last Friday, December 4.

The resolution indicates that, according to the antecedents, “it is not appreciated that the circumstances that were in view at the time of imposing preventive detention with respect to the accused Marcelo Campos Henríquez have changed substantially, given that the questions raised by the defense are related to a different interpretation of the information obtained during the investigation of the Public Ministry, relative to the principle of execution of the crimes for which the accused has been formalized and the applicable legislation in this regard ”.

The ruling adds: “The allegations raised as well as the antecedents that appear, for now, in this stage of the investigation, in the opinion of this Court do not have sufficient merit, to place the principle of execution of the facts investigated in a different time to that indicated by the Public Ministry ”.

“That, given the foregoing, the need for caution is given by the circumstance that has been formalized for two crimes, the penalty assigned to them and the nature of the facts investigated, from which it appears that the freedom of the accused constitutes a danger to the security of society, which is satisfied only with preventive detention, concurring in the species all the requirements demanded in article 140 of the Criminal Procedure Code ”, concludes the text.

According to data released by the Prosecutor’s Office in the formalization hearing, through an investigation that included the interception of telephones and monitoring, it was possible to detect that between 2016 and 2017, the accused representatives of the Itelecom company decided – as company policy – to offer bribes to public officials in order to ensure the award of public tenders related to the installation of led lights in different communes of the country.

In this context, The defendant Lefort Hernández would have contacted in the first half of 2019 and offered money to Marcelo Campos Henríquez and, through him, to Ricardo Vallejos Palacios, with the intention of favoring the company in the bidding process.

Due to the foregoing, Campos would have held meetings with Lefort Hernández and Guerra Guerrero, which subsequently resulted in the irregular award of the tender for the replacement of public lights in the city of Chillán, to the Itelecom company for an amount of $ 3,200,000,000.



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