The former candidate for senator for the Metropolitan Region, Karina Oliva, will voluntarily testify before the Public Ministry in the framework of the investigation against her for the millionaire expenses of her campaign for the Interior, informed her lawyer Juan Carlos Manríquez.
“We have decided to ask the Prosecutor’s Office to receive the testimony of Mrs. Oliva, according to the availability of the agenda,” Manríquez said, according to the slogan. DNA.
The lawyer argued that Oliva’s decision to testify in court is the result of a “very deep analysis of all the edges that this complaint has had.” Along these lines, he summoned “experts in electoral surrender, other fellow lawyers from the study and in close contact with the people who were participating in the previous electoral events.”
Likewise, he stated that “we have requested contact with the Servel to deliver the antecedents that allow quickly to discredit the doubts and accusations, in our opinion erroneous, that have been made and that produced this chain of effects and setbacks in the operation of such a diligence violent like a raid within 48 hours of an election. “
Days before the November 21 elections, Ciper revealed that 7 collaborators of the campaign for the Metropolitan Government of Oliva issued ballots for a total of 137 million pesos. This situation brought with it several consequences, such as the raid on the headquarters of the Comunes party, or the complaint of the Electoral Service (Servel) before the Prosecutor’s Office.
In addition, after the fact became known, the candidate Gabriel Boric (Approve Dignity) withdrew his support for the then candidate for senator, while Comunes suspended his membership and granted freedom of action.