He Mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue (PC), does not believe that he could be sent to preventive detention next weekwhen it will be formalized by the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office in the Third Guarantee Court for alleged corruption at the command of the Chilean Association of Popular Pharmacies (Achifarp).
On Wednesday, May 29, prosecutor Giovanna Herrera will charge the communal chief, one of the main leaders of the Communist Party, with the crimes of bribery, unfair administration, tax fraud, concealment of assets and fraud, allegedly committed by Achifarp, which he himself led, in the purchase and sale of health supplies during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jadue addressed the topic yesterday on his program «Without makeup»after his permanent interviewer, César Abu-Eid, asked him if they will be able to do it the following week, given that they broadcast it on YouTube every Wednesday afternoon, and the court hearing will take place in the morning.
«We do it the same! I don’t think the formalization will end on Wednesday, so until next Wednesday we are effectively on the program. Then we will see what happens,» the mayor responded.
The former president emphasized that «the most relevant thing about that day is the discussion of precautionary measures and surely the complainants, including the Prosecutor’s Office, which has been treating me like a criminal for many years now, and letting the folders filter, generating an environment (…), He will surely ask for preventive detention, but I think it is very complex that they could give it to him.«.
In that context, «I know that we are going to come out of this very strengthened,» he stressed.
He pointed out that «when a State apparatus wants to transform the purchase of medicines and technical aids into fraud against the Treasury, it will have to do a lot of work (to prove it).»
He also questioned that, in the process of reviewing the investigative folder, «those who accuse of fraud and bribery have declared four times» and, according to his interpretation, with «a certain level of contradictions between them that only the prosecutor can believe them.»