translated from Spanish: Public Prosecutor’s office required a hearing with the aim of formalizing general (R) Fuente-Alba

The central Norte Metropolitan prosecutor’s Office on Thursday requested a hearing to formalize the former army commander-in-chief, Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba, for the crime of asset laundering. According to Radio Cooperative, the request was entered during this day to the seventh Court of Guarantee of Santiago by the capital chief prosecutor, Jose Morales, after receiving a report of the PDI that verified the illicit ones committed by the general in retirement. Source-Alba’s attorney, Maximiliano Murath, said he hoped “the prosecution will at some point make a decision and that is going to mean that we will be able to deploy all the rest of the defense in order to be able to prove that the items of charges are not enough In order to get a conviction in that crime. ” In addition, he added that “while Minister Rutherford does not end up dictating a sentence in which he effectively establishes the basic fact, the laundering of assets is a fact that must be based on the embezzlement of public causals.” It should be recalled that Minister Romy Rutherford indicted the former commander-in-chief of the Army as the author of the repeated crime of embezzlement of public flows, for an approximate amount of 3.5 billion pesos.

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