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Eduardo Cerna added that this information was received on July 29, while the High Command of the PDI only learned of this information after the robbery at Brinks in Rancagua.
Eduardo Cerna, national director of the Investigative Police (PDI), explained that the institution He had a history of robbing a branch from a securities company in Rancagua since last July 29th.
Cerna said that due to this situation, Alex Zúñiga Castañeda, provincial prefect of Cachapoal, was called to retirement. He is also facing an investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office for “failure to report and obstruction of the investigation.”
The director of the PDI stated in a public activity in the Biobío Region what “A specific unit notified the regional chief through a formal communication of some indications that could affect a cash transport company, different from the one that was the victim of this robbery with intimidation.”
Eduardo Cerna added that this information was received on July 29, while The PDI High Command only learned of this information after the robbery at Brinks in Rancagua was carried out.
“We learned about it there, and obviously the provincial prefect had not given it any further processing beyond some supposedly slow, inopportune, and inaccurate review, which was not communicated by the prosecutor’s office,” said the director of the civil police, who added 24 hours after the assault, “the regional prefect instructs this prefect to communicate with the Public Prosecutor’s Office regarding these events.”
In light of this situation, Cerna stressed that “I instruct the deputy director of human resources management to notify my decision on Monday to recall the provincial prefect. We will not allow it and we will not tolerate actions like this, because they effectively tarnish and damage the committed work of thousands of men and women who put their heart and passion into this.”