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The State Defense Council expanded the complaint against the wife of the former Commander in Chief of the Army, Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba for the crime of money laundering.
According to what was reported by Radio Bío Bío, the legal action against Anita María Pinochet is part of an accusation that she faces with her husband for increasing her assets by more than 280% in seven years.
The CDE made said accusation on the basis of reports, antecedents and statements of witnesses, as well as the defendant herself, contained in the investigation and which are consigned in detail in the complaint.
The complaint was filed in 2019 in the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago, being the first from the Treasury directed towards the wife of the retired general.
The crime allows the action to be extended towards Pinochet Ribbeck is that of repeated embezzlement of public funds committed by his spouse and former Commander-in-Chief, which, according to the indictment issued against him, amounts to an approximate sum, at today, 3,500 million pesos.
Miguel Chaves, Anita María Pinochet’s lawyer, told Radio Bío Bío that the news “outrages those of us who intervened in this cause and it is unworthy that a notification be made by the press when not even the courts have ruled on the admissibility of that complaint ”.
“Whoever made that leak will have to take responsibility“He said, adding that it seems to him that it is” a communication action that seeks to make up for the evidence deficits through the media. “
Thus, he added that “if they had read the background information provided by this defense, that complaint would not be presented,” Chaves sentenced.
According to the document, Pinochet together with Fuente-Alba hid, they concealed and took advantage of money with full illicit knowledge of this.
On October 22, the Minister of the Court of Appeals of Santiago, Romy Rutherford, prosecuted the former Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General (r) Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba, for alleged use of an institutional plane for personal travel, accusing him of the crime of embezzlement of public funds.
Fuente-Alba had already been processed for another cause and in this process would have traveled 38 times to Puerto Velero, a seaside resort located in the Coquimbo region, using the Army plane charged to fiscal resources.
The antecedents of the investigation show that Fuente-Alba would have made these trips with friends and family to La Serena, and then traveled by vehicle to Puerto Velero.
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