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(UNO Agency) – The regional prosecutor of Aysén, Carlos Palma, ready the formalization of 800 active and retired military personnel due to fraud within the Army corresponding to a value of 3 billion pesos.
The investigation began in 2018 and according to the Public Ministry and the Investigative Police (PDI), the public funds were used to pay private debts.
Palma already led in 2018 a registry in the Commands of Personnel, Telecommunications and Finance Directorate of the Army Headquarters in Santiago. Then they were little more than 300 the military investigated.
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The fraud was carried out through contract fees, payment of salaries to retired personnel and service commissions that were not carried out where there was a payment as compensation for individual economic losses.
All this as a result of the end of the Mutual Aid Fund (FAM), an informal solidarity aid system that operated in Coyhaique since 1950 and which was annulled by the Army in 2006.
“Once the Mutual Aid Fund closed, measures were implemented to alleviate the damage caused to officials and at first, these measures were within the regulatory and legal framework that was carry out service commissions or give priority to those people who had been economically harmed “, explained Palma in 2018, in statements collected by RLN.
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“However, and that is what is being investigated from the criminal point of view, at some point the service commissions were decreed and paid but they were not done: the work contracts that were signed did not carry in practice the realization of work, therefore money existed without justification, and in some cases, extension of post-retirement benefits to a longer term than legally allowed, “he said.
The penalties for the crime of tax fraud, depending on the amounts and reiteration in the facts, range from 541 days of imprisonment to criminal penalties, that is, higher than five years and a day in jail.
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