translated from Spanish: 12 arrested for ammunition trafficking and bribery in Cauquenes and Constitución

A year ago the Local Prosecutor’s Office of Cauquenes investigated the crime of ammunition trafficking, after a large increase in the flow of these was detected, including also the seizure of a weapon that was never delivered to its real owner. In this way, the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered the OS-9 of the Carabineros to carry out various proceedings and expert reports that would allow the authors of these crimes to be established as those who were directly related to the Curanipez armory with branches in Cauquenes and Curanipe, in addition to two uniformed police officers who exercised the role of the supervisory authority of arms control in the coastal zone. It was possible to establish that there were also 9 other subjects related to this investigation who were formalized for various crimes, leaving four of them in preventive detention.” The Cauquenes prosecutor’s office formalized the investigation against 12 defendants for the crimes of ammunition trafficking, bribery, falsification of public instrument and contempt among others. This Wednesday was decreed before the Court of Guarantee the precautionary measure of imprisonment with respect to only one of the defendants who had in turn other crimes involved, “said the chief prosecutor of Constitution, Francisco Ávila.In addition, he specified that “the Prosecutor’s Office of Cauquenes appealed verbally in the hearing against the resolution that had rejected the preventive detention of other defendants and this Thursday the Illustrious Court of Appeals accepted the appeal that we presented and issued the precautionary measure of preventive detention with respect to three of them, who are the owner of the armory involved and the two Carabineros officials of the arms control authority of the Constitution. In addition, the precautionary measure of monthly signature of the others involved is maintained.” This diligence was carried out by the Carabineros institution itself through the specialized unit of OS-9 and involved various proceedings such as telephone interceptions and the use of undercover and revealing agents. In this way, an organization dedicated mainly to ammunition trafficking is eradicated, leaving four people in prison and setting an investigation period of three months.

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