The Central-North Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office asked the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago on Wednesday to formalize the former commander-in-chief of the Army Humberto Oviedo (2014-2018), for the crime of money laundering. This, within the framework of fraud in the military institution, a case known as Milicogate.
The Public Ministry investigates Oviedo -who is already prosecuted by the military justice- for having carried out alleged maneuvers to hide the embezzlement of money, coming from reserved expenses.
The former commander is going to be formalized “for the crime of money laundering and this is related to a base crime that is embezzlement of public funds, with the use and introduction of these illicit monies into the economy for the use of various bank accounts “said the prosecutor in charge of the case, Jose Moralesslogan Third.
There is a “criminal offense that is being investigated by the military jurisdiction, in this case what is being investigated is that the reserved expenses that are assigned to the Army -and that must be used for national security- were diverted towards the current costs of this accused and to hide it, he distributed them among his bank accounts”, added the persecutor.
