While the Public Ministry continues without a head after the rejection in the Senate of the nomination of martha herreraControversial situations continue to occur within the Prosecutor’s Office. The last was the removal of two public persecutors, as confirmed by the National Prosecutor(s), Juan Agustin Melendez.
Is about Maria Constanza Izurieta Y Andres Iturrathe daughter and son-in-law, respectively, of the accused ex-commander-in-chief of the Army, Oscar Izurieta. The first worked in the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office, while the second was chief deputy prosecutor of the Las Condes Prosecutor’s Office.
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According to the background, both are accused of being responsible for having helped the retired general to part with assets of illegal origin, within the framework of the case for embezzlement of public funds that weighs against him. Therefore, both committed serious breaches of probity, which severely affected the image of the Public Ministry.
Because of this, the judge investigating the case, Romy Rutherfordcould not confiscate them.
The defendants, upon seeing themselves subjected to an administrative summary, explained that said transfers were made because Izurieta feared “for his life” due to illness. However, the story of both was branded as “implausible”.
The measure adopted, as reported BioBioChile, was ordered by the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor (s), Felipe Sepúlveda. Meléndez used the same arguments as Sepúlveda when rejecting the appeal of the persecutors, who had requested that the sanction be annulled.
In parallel, they face an ex officio criminal investigation for the alleged crime of money laundering, ordered by the then National Prosecutor, George Abbott.
