In three months, starting on February 14, the term of the criminal investigation was extended against the former director general of the Investigative Police (PDI), Hector Espinosa Valenzuela; your spouse, Maria Neira Cabreraand his former personal assistant, Commissioner Edward Villablancawho were formalized in October of last year for the crimes of embezzlement of public funds, forgery of public instruments and money laundering.
The request made by the Magallanes Regional Prosecutor, Eugene Camposbefore the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago, is based on various banking requirements, information, accounting records, proceedings requested by the State Defense Council and account movements that are required to deepen for the identification of current accounts, drawers, flow of funds, total amounts and the preparation of expert reports arranged to prove the existence of the crimes.
Likewise, due to the lifting of the Banking Secrecy, with which the investigated period is extended, which allows analyzing the traceability of money as well as the acquisition of goods.
It should be remembered that this investigation began as a result of suspicious operations, in December 2020, through a report from the Financial Analysis Unit (UAF).
The cause arises as one of the edges of the embezzlement of public funds detected in Carabineros de Chile and is related to the theft of at least 146 million pesos, from public funds destined for reserved expenses assigned to the PDI.
The crime would have occurred through Commissioner Villablanca, who as an accomplice, and in exchange for commissions, would have made various installment deposits for millions of dollars to the bank accounts of Espinosa and her spouse, an official of the Internal Revenue Service (SII). .
Regarding the acts of money laundering, which had the effect that these monies entered the patrimony of the accused, were mixed with their assets of legal origin and were integrated into the formal economic system, affecting a series of legal assets, intended to protect both the administration of justice and economic public order.
