He Oral Criminal Trial Court of Punta Arenas convicted two former public officials for having requested bribes in exchange for rigging, in 2018, the tender for the cleaning service of the Southern Integration Border Complex for the year 2019.
Sebastián González, chief prosecutor of Punta Arenasexplained that those sentenced depended on the former Provincial Government of Magallanes: Gerardo Ignacio Pérez Fromento It was «back then -year 2018- chief of staff of former provincial governor Nicolás Cogler».
Christian Marcelo Reyes Manriquezwhile, «He was a coordinator at said border crossing,» hired by the same department.
Two officials from the former Provincial Government of Magallanes were convicted of the crime of aggravated bribery.
They requested bribes for the awarding of a tender for cleaning services at a border crossing.@FiscaliadeChile pic.twitter.com/dWbrSEbuZA— Prosecutor’s Office of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica (@Fisc_Magallanes) May 22, 2024
«A MONTHLY STICK»
At the trial, the Public Ministry stated that on December 6, 2018, in agreement with Reyes, Gerardo Pérez sent a message WhatsApp to the contractor Gerardo Uribe Huaiquil«telling him to apply» for a tender published on the page MercadoPublico.cl for the aforementioned cleaning service.
Pérez literally told Uribe Huaiquil that «The tender can be won, but if so, a monthly fee must go to the person who helps win the tender.».
This contest «It lasts one year, but it can be extended for another, if you win it it would be two years, that is to say two years, stupid earning good money, stupid, and at the same time a whore, passing the suit to this person monthly, even so, I made good profits«.
The bribe was to be paid by Christian Reyes, who «immediately» -posted Pérez’s WhatsApp-, called Uribe to «give him details about the tender in question and also indicate that they will send him data from another tender, urging him to participate in both and advising him on how to comply with the entry requirements for the bidding process,» the ruling states.
TOP of Punta Arenas sentences 5 years of effective imprisonment and 5 years of sentence sent to perpetrators of aggravated bribery https://t.co/EQKAaqgH6N pic.twitter.com/sEC5dVPrcV
— Chilean Judiciary (@PJudicialChile) May 22, 2024
After the trial, Christian Reyes Manriquez was sentenced -as the author of the crime of aggravated bribery– to five years of effective imprisonmentto 10 years of absolute disqualification from public positions or offices, absolute perpetual disqualification for political rights and absolute disqualification for tenured professions during the time of the sentence; plus the payment of a fine of four million pesos and payment of the costs of the process.
Gerardo Ignacio Pérez Fromento He was also sentenced to five yearsbut with the benefit of remission and intensive probation for the same period, 10 years of temporary absolute disqualification in its maximum degree for public positions or offices and perpetual absolute disqualification for political rights; plus the payment of a fine of four million and costs, as co-author of the crime of bribery.