[Politics] Prosecutor's Office raids Regional Government: they investigate coordination between former seremis of Antofagasta and El Maule

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The Antofagasta Regional Prosecutor's Office requested the entry and search warrant to raid the offices of the Maule Regional Government, the offices of the Fundación Urbanismo Social and the home of former Housing Seremi Rodrigo Hernández (RD). The latter had been defended by the President of the Republic 10 days ago. However, shortly after, the Minister of Housing, Carlos Montes (PS), asked him to resign due to new records and loss of confidence. According to sources linked to the case, last week the existence of "coordinated communications" from the ex-seremi of Housing from El Maule and his pair from Antofagasta was detected. (DEVELOPING)

“Until now, no one has notified me of a raid at all, notwithstanding that, we are very available to deliver all the investigation that is required to clarify this. At this time, 4:20 in the afternoon, no one from the PDI has gone to the regional government”. With these words, the Governor of El Maule, Cristina Bravo, specified to El Mostrador, while finishing lunch, that until then there had been no police raid on the regional government headquarters.

However, only 10 minutes later, members of the PDI Economic Crimes Brigade entered the Regional Government headquarters in El Maule. This is due to the fact that the Antofagasta Prosecutor's Office, in the investigation led by chief persecutor Cristian Aguilar, asked the Antofagasta Guarantee Court for an entry and search warrant to search the offices of the regional government of El Maule, the offices of the Fundación Urbanismo Social in Santiago and the address of the ex-seremi of Vivienda Rodrigo Hernández (RD) in Talca, which was authorized.

 

According to sources linked to the case, last week the existence of "coordinated communications" was detected between the former housing minister of El Maule Rodrigo Hernández (RD), and his former partner, former minister of Antofagasta, Carlos Contreras (RD), who is being investigated by direct transfers to delivered to Fundación Democracia Viva, which was directed by his friend and former vice president of the DR, Daniel Andrade, ex-boyfriend of the district representative Catalina Pérez.

In this context, they indicated to El Mostrador, one of the lines of the inquiries points to "a kind of coordination" between both former DR ex-seremis, which also triggered the departure of Rodrigo Hernández from office. The latter had been defended by the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, 10 days ago; However, shortly after the Minister of Housing, Carlos Montes (PS) demanded the resignation "due to new records and loss of confidence", although he did not detail what led to this mistrust of the DR cadre.

Meanwhile, as reported by Radio VLN of Talca, the Court of Antofagasta "authorized the entry and search of the address that corresponds to the regional government of Maule to seize all the documentation on digital paper or other media related to the hasty agreement signed with the urbanism foundation including all the documentation that served as antecedent for the execution of the agreement and its rendering, if there were more computers that contain information linked to the facts investigated”.

According to the radio, access to the home of ex-seremi Rodrigo Hernández was also authorized, all documentation on digital paper or other means related to the agreements plus cell phones containing data linked to the facts.

 

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