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In preventive prison, the Penquista doctor was charged with a mega fraud to Fonasa estimated at more than 6 billion pesos.
The precautionary measure was decreed by the Guarantee Court upon accepting the request of the Prosecutor’s Office and estimating that the is a danger to the safety of society.
Until almost 9:00 p.m. yesterday night the formalization hearing in the case of Pamela Carrasco Godoy, a surgeon arrested and charged with fraudulently obtaining from Fonasa in Concepción 6 thousand 132 million 308 thousand 522 pesos.
According to the antecedents compiled by the Prosecutor’s Office, the professional – between December 29, 2019 and last July 8 – used without her knowledge the data of 66 patients to issue 14,220 bonds for health benefits that were never delivered.
The State Defense Council, through the lawyer Georgy Schubert, adhered to all the requests of the Public Ministry, underlining that the doctor stole from the public health system in middle of worst pandemic in 100 years.
Along with Pamela Carrasco, her brother David was arrested, leaving the woman charged by Tax fraud and money laundering, while the man faces only charges for the latest crime, being accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of hide part of the money obtained by his sister.
From the beginning of the formalization, the strategy of the Criminal Defense Office aimed to alleged mental problems of the physician, which was reiterated prior to the request for precautionary measures, advancing the defender Sandra Betancourt that they will request tests that confirm or discard their unimputability.
The investigation started five months ago, after a complaint by Fonasa, was led by the prosecutor María José Aguayo, a persecutor who, after a marathon day, requested the most burdensome of the precautionary for both defendants.
The Guarantee judge, Juan Pinochet, however, only granted preventive detention for Dr. Pamela Carrasco, decreeing for her brother David the total house arrest, and setting 6 months as the term for the end of the investigation.
This article describes an ongoing legal process
There is a possibility that the charges will be dismissed at the end of the investigation, therefore The accused should NOT be considered as guilty until Justice dictates sentence against him.
(Article 04 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)
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