translated from Spanish: They were the first two sentences by millionaire fraud in the Army

civil judge of the court martial, Rommy Rutherford, today issued the first two sentences by a fraud of the reserved copper law in army funds, qu (e) far exceeds the $ 10 million. The judge sanctioned out Juan Carlos Cruz to a sentence of twelve years as the perpetrator of the offence of fraud to the Treasury in character of repeated and to the payment of a fine for more than 138 million pesos, according to spread today radio Bio Bio.rutherford also sentenced the sa Liliana Villagrán Vásquez rgento to ten years and a day in prison for the same illegal and ordered to pay a similar figure. Investigations were able to establish that Cruz and Villagrán committed the offences between 2010 and 2013, when a report published in August of 2016 by Bio Bío were destined in the support command of the Fuerza.segun, a group of Chilean military disappoint in 5.480 billion pesos belonging to the State between 2010 and 2014, during the reign of Sebastian Pinera.tras a domestic trial carried out by the institution, was established that fraud was carried out with money from the reserved copper law and ordered the removal of six members of the organization. Colonel Clovis Montero, extesorero the State of the army; second after Juan Carlos Cruz Valverde, second Sergeant Millaray Simunovic Bustamante, Petty Officer Claudio González Palominos, second Sergeant Miguel Escobar Díaz, the first Sergeant Luis Meléndez Carrillo, and the second Sergeant Liliana Villagrán Vasquez were removed from the institution. Seven other officers were reprimanded, while the colonels Ricardo Márquez and Mirko Maturana were not sanctioned, since they were withdrawn before the end of the trial. The same date, a weekly magazine uncovered the called “Milicogate”, revealing that there was a great diversion of public funds operation conducted by officers and members of the weekly Ejercito.el then denounced the disappearance of around 2,000 million of weights from public coffers through false invoices that are also sheltering in the secret of the so-called quiet Act of the Cobre.Esta law was enacted in 1958 and published in a limited edition of the official journal, since it’s a secret order whose purpose It is to allocate revenue from the mining of copper for the purchase and maintenance of armaments for the armed forces of Chile.

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