After a complaint filed by the lawyer Gene Fernandez Llerena to the Valparaíso Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the Public Ministry opened an investigation into the statements issued on Wednesday by the Minister of the Interior, Izkia Sichesin which he accused that in the previous government a plane with expelled foreigners returned to Chile with all its passengers.
The Secretary of State made that assertion in the Citizen Security Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies. Later, after being summoned by the former Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo DelgadoSiches retracted his statements and stated that the information was wrong.
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The information was confirmed by the National Prosecutor, George Abbott, after the inauguration of the Quintero Local Prosecutor’s Office. The persecutor pointed out that Fernández’s complaint was made under the crimes of “failure to report” and for “official crimes that could have been committed in the previous government.”
Abbott pointed out that “an investigation has already been opened and it will be in the context of that investigation that it will have to be established if there is indeed a fact that constitutes a crime with respect to actions that could have occurred in the past, or eventually actions that would have occurred. Recently”.
According to the Valparaíso Regional Prosecutor, claudia perivancichthe investigation is in charge of the Regional Anticorruption Unit, and will be carried out by the prosecutor Claudio Reveco, collects Third.
Sayings of Izkia and statement of Sernamig
Minister Siches said on Wednesday in the House committee that “we identified that one of the expulsion planes that were made to Venezuela returned with the same people, and we had no idea. With all the passengers expelled!”
“I want to point out now that if we did that, it would be the cover of The second The same day. My congratulations to the previous government because it had the capacity to cover this with earth, because it is something very serious, with the amount of resources,” he added.
After being summoned by former Minister Delgado, via Twitter, Siches backed down with his statements. That false accusation generated a wave of opposition criticism against the head of the Interior, and even calls for her resignation.
The National Migration Service (Sernamig) published a statement on Thursday clarifying the situation, noting that the Venezuelan government did not authorize the flight of 53 expelled Venezuelans. The PDI, then, only proceeded to board Colombian citizens.
In addition, they targeted the former deputy director of the Service, Carmen Gloria Danerifor the transfer of erroneous information.
“He reported at a meeting (held on March 25) at the Ministry of the Interior that Venezuelan citizens had embarked and traveled to Venezuela, not having been admitted to that country and returning to Chile,” the statement said.
