translated from Spanish: Minister on visit orders pre-trial detention and embargo for General Oviedo

The Minister on martial court visits, Romy Rutherford Parentti, brought the retired general and former commander-in-chief of the Army, Humberto Oviedo, to the repeated crime of embezzlement of public funds totaling $4,596 .129,200 in the notebook investigating the use of reserved expenses, the Judiciary reported after midnight. The judge’s decision, contained in 250 foljas, states: “For these reasons and in accordance, moreover, with the provisions of Articles 274 to 278 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, it is stated that Humberto Oviedo is under going to trial in his capacity as author of the repeated crime of embezzlement of public flows provided for and sanctioned by Article 233 in connection with Article 238, both of the Penal Code, related to total damage caused to the Fisco of Chile rising to the sum of $4,596,129,200 (four thousand ninety-six million hundred and twenty-nine thousand two hundred pesos, considering the average annual value of the dollar in the respective periods) and equivalent to 94,296, 82 UTM”. The magistrate also issued an injunction for garnisher of the defendant’s assets for the same amount. The general (r) was personally notified of the decision against him expressing his agreement with it. He was also ordered to enter the Peñalolén Military Police Battalion on remand.

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