A group of opposition deputies asked the Comptroller this Friday for a statement on the statements issued on Wednesday by the Minister of the Interior, Izkia Sicheswho accused that in the second government of Sebastian Pinera a plane with expelled foreigners returned to Chile with all its passengers.
In the Citizen Security Commission of the Lower House, the head of the Interior said that “we identified that one of the planes of the expulsions that were made to Venezuela, returned with the same people, and we had no idea. With all the passengers! driven out!”.
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Subsequently, the former Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgadoasked Siches to “transparent” the background of the case, to which the portfolio holder retracted her statements and apologized to Delgado.
The request of the opposition deputies to the Comptroller’s Office aims to clarify whether the Secretary of State failed to comply with the “duty of reporting established in the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Administrative Statute.”
In the document presented by the legislators, they indicate that “it is evident that (Siches) had days to make the complaint in the face of extremely serious events, and regarding which he preferred to issue statements in the public media, but did not specify his legal obligation in the terms established by the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Administrative Statute”, collects Third.
“She found out about this on April 1, or before, and if she found out by any means, she had the obligation – as Minister of State – to have denounced the facts. If not, we are clearly before a minister who, knowing that the facts were false, she lied and deliberately lacked the truth, ”said the deputy. Andrew Longton (RN) at a press point.
In the presentation of the request were also the deputies Jorge Alessandri (UDI), Christian Araya (Republicans) and Francisco Undurraga (Evopolis).
