The Antofagasta Prosecutor’s Office announced this afternoon that the former mayor of the city, Karen Redconvicted of fraud against the Treasury and who fled on March 23 – the day her sentence was confirmed by the Court of Appeals – bound for the Netherlands, continues to be effectively imprisoned in that country awaiting the hearing to extradite her to our country.
This information comes after a report by meganewswhich indicates that Rojo was a fugitive in the European country, to the point that a police source revealed to the television signal that the former mayor was not detained in the prison that had been communicated last month when they found her.
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Through a video -according to Third-, the judicial entity reported that “the person convicted of the crime of fraud against the Treasury and former mayor, Karen Rojo Venegas, remains in prison while waiting for the courts of the Netherlands to hold the hearing to hear and decide on the extradition request that carries out the Chilean justice”.
Although they specify -in the same material- that there is no certainty of the date of said hearing, added to the fact that the whereabouts of Rojo’s prison are not revealed “in accordance with the legal formalities of the legislation of the Netherlands”.
Video via Twitter: @FRANTOFAGASTA
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The Supreme Court confirmed on March 23 the sentence that the Antofagasta Oral Criminal Trial Court had issued against Karen Rojo, sentencing her to an effective sentence of five years and one day in prison for the consummated crime of treasury fraud. , which was committed between October 2015 and August 2016.
Specifically, the Prosecutor’s Office verified that the former mayor made use of resources from the Municipal Corporation for Social Development of the northern city to pay for a communications agency for personal purposes, this in the context of her re-election.
