Production company owner accused of defrauding Monticello with alleged hiring of Céline Dion



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This Saturday the owner of a production company accused of having swindled Sun Dreams, a subsidiary of Monticello to produce events, with the alleged hiring of a show by the renowned Canadian singer Céline Dion.

In the case, initiated by a casino complaint for alleged fraud, there are two defendants, one of whom has been in preventive detention for a few months, while the second was arrested yesterday Friday by the PDI Economic Crimes Brigade detained in the Pirque commune to the second: Rodrigo Perez, since Colors agency, who was on the run.

According to the background, in 2018 those involved they had offered to manage a presentation of the artist, which was going to take place at the Gran Arena Monticello. For this, the casino company disbursed about 900 million pesos, the amount finally scammed.

But then representatives of Monticello traveled to the United States and made contact with the interpreter’s staff, who denied any connection with the producers of Colors and assured that Chile was not among the interpreter’s plans. “All by myself” and the well-known song “My heart Will Go On”, from the movie Titanic.

The Deputy Inspector Mauricio Bravo, of the Economic Crimes Brigade, explained that “the accused, a representative of the Colors agency, had signed contracts with Gran Arena Monticello to bring the artist. The issue was that the aforementioned contracts were presumably signed abroad, to bring the artist to Chile, which to date has never materialized. “

“It is important to note that representatives of Arena Monticello traveled abroad, made direct contact with representatives of the artist and they also confirmed that the accused in question had never taken any steps to bring her to Chile “, he stressed.

This morning Pérez was transferred to detention control before the Graneros Guarantee Court and was admitted to preventive detention, a precautionary measure that the Justice “had already decreed several months before“In January of this year, informed the chief prosecutor of that commune, Pablo Muñoz.

An investigation period of 160 days was decreed.

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