2024-05-19 22:08:28
A cousin and nephew of José Luis Yáñez benefited from these million-dollar cash transfers.
The Comptroller Common of the Republic introduced the results of his report on the irregularities dedicated within the Municipality of Algarrobo throughout the administration of José Luis Yáñez (former UDI), the place the million-dollar transfers made between 2021 and 2023 stand out.
The group specified that Belén Carrasco, then the mayor’s associate, labored as municipal treasurer -without an administrative appointment-, and made 107 financial institution transfers between June 2021 and November 2023, reaching a sum of $1,193,292,004, to pay suppliers and individuals who didn’t present providers to the municipality. Moreover, two of the names that seem in these banking transactions have a direct household reference to José Luis Yáñez.
The Comptroller’s Workplace specified that there are two transfers of $30 million that had been rejected by BancoEstado. Moreover, three individuals who acquired a part of these financial institution transfers made returns for a complete quantity of greater than $59 million.
The group identified that The municipality of Algarrobo “doesn’t have manuals on administrative procedures associated to the Treasury, nor on funds and administration of financial institution accounts, nor on the operation of the municipality’s money. Additionally it is confirmed that the transfers made by the one that served as municipal treasurer had been permitted by the previous mayor, the previous director of Neighborhood Growth and the previous authorized director.”
Together with this, it was verified that Mayor José Luis Yáñez intervened in disciplinary processes initiated by mayoral decrees. Thus, the now former authority would have pressured the prosecutor of the method to direct its consequence.
Given these info, The Comptroller Common’s Workplace initiated an administrative abstract and referred all the data to the Public Ministry and the State Protection Council.