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This Wednesday the Army issued a statement referring to the investigation into the case of the Mutual Aid Fund (FAM). On the occasion, the military entity said that it hopes that through the investigation it will be possible to distinguish between those services that were actually rendered and performed, from those “out of the law.”
Let us remember that about 800 current and retired Army officials will be formalized for alleged fraud to the Treasury, this after the Public Ministry together with the PDI detected the payment of private debts for an amount close to $ 3 billion within the military institution.
As they explained, The fund existed “since the 1950s in the Aysén region, which was made up mostly of non-commissioned officers of the institution, being a private initiative to generate solidarity aid among staff”.
“This fund functioned uninterruptedly until its insolvency is declared, so the commanding officer of the time determined in 2008 to carry out a series of administrative measures to support the affected NCOs, which lasted until 2016,” they detailed.
Likewise, they pointed out that the judicial investigation of the case had its origin in a complaint filed in 2017 by the same Army before the Military Prosecutor of Coyhaique, as a result of a preliminary report from the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic that reported on certain irregularities that had been committed between 2015 and 2016 “due to service commissions and honorary contracts in the IV Army Division.”
In this regard, they assured that as the Army they instructed “two administrative summary investigations, which are currently in their final stage and are intended to determine the responsibilities at all the corresponding levels.”
As stated, “It will be up to the different authorities during that period that had interference in the implementation of said measures, to explain them to the investigating body”.
Likewise, they indicate that there are currently active personnel as defendants, both officers and non-commissioned officers, however, “this does not imply any prejudice, insofar as there is still no judicial resolution that establishes their responsibility in the facts that are they investigate. (…) In the event of a possible conviction, the Chilean Army will adopt the corresponding resolutions, in accordance with the responsibilities determined in each case ”.
Finally, they point out that “It is important to bear in mind that in an investigation as broad as the one that has been known these days, each particular situation is different from the others, hoping that during the course of the investigation a distinction will be made between those cases in which the contracted services and the service commissions were effectively rendered and carried out, of those out of legality “.
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