2024-01-21 15:32:00
The president of the UDI, Javier Macaya, referred to the former mayor of Maipú, Cathy Barriga, who this week was charged with treasury fraud and falsification of a public instrument. “It was not possible to guide her further in her management“, held.
What did Javier Macaya say?
The UDI helmsman referred to the community’s decision to have Barriga as a candidate and maintained that “the vast majority of those who have served from the UDI in mayor’s offices (…) have done so with a true vocation and adherence to the rules.” . When these situations occur we put ourselves on alert and try to clarify everything that happened in the best way possible.”
“Regarding her, I must be very frank, perhaps because she was independent, because she did not have a closer relationship with the UDI and it was not possible, as in other cases we do, to guide her more in her management. There I can do self-criticism,” Macaya added during his interview with Third.
Along these lines, she did not want to answer the question about whether the party regretted having supported her: “it is not my place to speak out on that, because at the time It was a candidacy supported by the previous board”.
What does the Prosecutor’s Office accuse Cathy Barriga of?
This Thursday was the last day of formalization of the former mayor of Maipú and the judge Hugo Salgado decided to decree the precautionary measure of total house arrest y national roots against him, rejecting the request of the Public Ministry, an entity that had requested his preventive prison.
The Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that Barriga “defrauded or allowed tax assets to be defrauded” thanks to the implementation of an “organic administrative structure of fraudulent availability of resources and the installation of fraudulent governance.”
This structure would have been executed to “disrupt, impede and block the control mechanisms established by law (…), causing harm to the Municipality of Maipú for values that are still being investigated, but that would add up to at least $30.622.935.635“.
“The accused also carried out or ordered to carry out (…) multimillion-dollar arbitrary acquisitions of goods and services that are not consistent with the purposes legally established for the municipalities, a context in which it also established contracts at inappropriate fees, all financed with public funds,” they added.
According to prosecutor Constanza Encina, the money allegedly wasted in Maipú would be equivalent to 55 Democracia Viva cases, 28 in Vitacura, 20 in Algarrobo and 914 times the amount for which Karen Rojo, former mayor of Antofagasta, was convicted. “Is one of the largest frauds known in the municipal history of the country“, he claimed.
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