Carolina Tohá and <a href="http://www.time.news/pdi-carries-out-operation-to-take-cerrillos-and-pequena-caracas-in-central-station-2024-04-12-043508/" title="PDI carries out operation to take Cerrillos and "Pequeña Caracas" in Central Station
– 2024-04-12 04:35:08″>Eduardo Cerna faced the microphones to refer again to the rape investigation faced by the former Undersecretary of the Interior.
Carolina Tohá, Minister of the Interior, and Eduardo Cerna, director of the PDI, They faced the press microphones again to refer to the case of former undersecretary Manuel Monsalvewho is investigated for sexual abuse and rape.
On the occasion, the head of the Interior made a mea culpa for the management of La Moneda after learning of the complaint that her former subordinate was facing.
“Certainly this could have been done better, like all things, but particularly in this we identified several matters. What was put at the center, in any case, was to act responsibly,” said Tohá.
Along these lines, he explained that it was necessary “from the first moment to establish the reality that the undersecretary’s permanence was in doubt and that his departure was imminent.”
Asked about the delay in Manuel Monsalve’s resignation, the Minister of the Interior maintained that “the first thing was to know if this investigation was really being addressed by the Prosecutor’s Office, giving it the feasibility (…) it was necessary to have a replacement resolved.”
“Those are the fundamental reasons for these hours that passed, there are no others. Those are the fundamentals. The travel thing is a marginal issue in that matter,” he added.
Director of the PDI acknowledges that he did not notify the Prosecutor’s Office of his conversation with Tohá
For its part, Eduardo Cerna, director of the PDI, specified that he did not inform the Public Ministry of his conversation with Carolina Tohá, where he informed him that Manuel Monsalve was being investigated for rape.
“My communications with the Public Ministry are within the context of permanent relations in all areas, but in particular with the prosecutor Xavier Armendáriz, before speaking with the minister, no,” Cerna acknowledged.
The director of the PDI defended his position, stating that “in public administration there is a principle of hierarchy. The organic law of the PDI says that the nexus, the hierarchical link, is with the Ministry of the Interiorr, through the Undersecretariat of the Interior.”
“When I report it is that it is being investigated, not that there is a complaint and there were actions, field work, investigation by the Sexual Crimes Brigade team in this regard,” he pointed out, adding that “I inform the minister that we are investigating it, that there have been actions and obviously it was because our connection was with the person under investigation (…) but I did not communicate details of the investigation.”