The Supreme Court rejected this Wednesday the annulment appeals filed against the sentence, issued by the Antofagasta Oral Criminal Trial Court, which sentenced the former mayor Karen Red and the former executive secretary of the Municipal Corporation, Edgardo Vergara, for the consummated crime of fraud against the Treasury. The crime was committed between October 2015 and August 2016.
Rojo was sentenced to an effective sentence of five years and one day in prison, while Vergara was sentenced to three years and one day in prison, with the benefit of supervised release.
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In a unanimous ruling (cause role 7.006-2021), the Second Chamber of the highest court – made up of the ministers Harold Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Leopoldo Llanos, Miguel Vazquez and Robert Contreras– ruled out infractions in the oral trial of the right to defense, due process and definition of the crime.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Rojo used resources from the Municipal Corporation for Social Development of Antofagasta to pay for services of a communications agency for personal purposes, with a view to his re-election. It is the firm Main Comunicaciones belonging to the political scientist Jose Miguel Izquierdo.
The chief prosecutor of Antofagasta, Cristian Aguilar, pointed out that the former mayor “could opt for the benefit of conditional release, but for that she must serve half the period imposed in the sentence,” he says. Radio Bio Bio.
