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The Secretary of the Senate, Raúl Guzmán, has become the headache of the Corporation before the imminent formalization by the Prosecutor’s Office for violation of article 318 of the Penal Code, which is applied to those who transgress the different sanitary measures established by authority, in the midst of the pandemic.
It should be remembered that last June 25, the Secretary of the Senate was the protagonist of a controversy when he was photographed in the restaurant “Loyola”, located in the commune of San Miguel, together with the prosecutor Patricio Rosas and the advisor Roberto Contreras, without a mask or social distancing in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
His first explanation was that he went to the place to look for law books, but the investigation of the Public Ministry, in charge of the Regional Prosecutor of Biobío, Marcela Cartagena, already has a series of documents, photographs, images of the security cameras of the premises and the seizure of a computer that support its imminent formalization, reported Radio Bío Bío.
The situation of the former prosecutor was analyzed this morning at a committee meeting, where the complaint published today in The Mercury on payments in excess of over 208 million pesos to senior officials of the Corporation between January 2017 and February 2020.
Although most senators have decided to remain silent and not speak out on the Guzmán case, given that there is currently an ongoing investigation, Senator DC Yasna Provoste admitted to The second that “it is obviously an uncomfortable situation for the Senate.”
For his part, his socialist colleague Carlos Montes assured that “we are not going to speculate, once we have the antecedents we are going to issue an opinion”, while the head of the bench RN Rodrigo Galilea said that “we have not even discussed it”, when consulted regarding the possibility that the Secretary of the Senate be formalized.
Meanwhile, José García Ruminot (RN), president of the Ethics Commission of the Upper House, said that “the prudent thing is to wait for the investigation carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office. Anticipating any trial is not appropriate, we have to be very respectful of the autonomy of the Public Ministry ”.
For his part, the vice president of the Corporation, Rabindranath Quinteros (PS), told Radio Bío Bío that if the highest administrative authority of the Corporation is formalized, the case will be heard again in the Internal Regime Commission.
“With regard to this, there is already a sanitary summary that sanctioned it and if the Public Ministry decides to formalize it, the case will be seen again by the Internal Regime Commission of the Senate,” he said in reference to the 2.5 million peso mutation applied Guzmán for the Seremi de Salud.
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