2024-08-25 20:18:42
The decision of the Attorney General’s Office to subject Cathy Barriga to a reformulation was based on a report from the Comptroller’s Office, which detected a deficit at the budget and cash level.
For the next one The hearing for the reformalization of the former mayor of Maipú, Cathy Barriga, was set for September 13on charges of falsifying information and falsifying a public instrument.
This was confirmed this afternoon by the prosecutor of the Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office East, Constanza Encina, after the hearing in which the Ninth Guarantee Court of Santiago maintained the precautionary measures against the former communal chief of nightly house arrest, national restrictions and prohibition from approaching the other defendants and witnesses in the case.
The decision of the prosecutor’s office to subject Cathy Barriga to a reformalization was based on a report from the Comptroller’s Office, according to which in the municipality of Maipucino it was detected that the Budget deficit exceeds 29 billion pesoswhile the Cash deficit, also known as effective debt, reaches 31 billion of weights.
The Comptroller’s report stated that “the behavior of the Municipality of Maipú in the periods analyzed, tended to generate obligations with suppliers (expenses) greater than what was allowed by the budget; that is, the budgetary income was insufficient to cover the level of indebtedness of this municipality, using as a common practice the absorption of the debt of a period by charging it to the budget of the following period.”
Joaquin Lavin Jr. and the reformulation of Cathy Barriga
Costanza Encina was asked if the issue of the alleged participation of her husband, Joaquín Lavín León, in decision-making in the Municipality of Maipú would be included in the reformulation of Cathy Barriga, to which the prosecutor said that she would not refer to the issue and that This will be seen when the former mayor goes to the Justice Center on September 13.
The possibility that the artist Joaquin Lavin Jr. joins the reformalization of Cathy Barriga It was mentioned after the High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office of the East began an investigation, with the purpose of determine whether the former mayor’s husband committed the crimes of tax fraud and influence peddling.
According to the information gathered, Joaquín Lavín Jr. sent emails with instructions to Cathy Barriga and municipal officials, in which ordered hiring and dismissal of personnel in the municipality.