The Comptroller’s Office ruled out any illegality in the security collaboration agreement signed on January 18 by the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, and the Venezuelan authorities.
According to the determination of the supervisory body, the Ministry of the Interior “is authorized, in its capacity as an organ of the State Administration, to celebrate inter-institutional agreements of an international nature with foreign entities, which affect matters within its scope of competence. ”.
In that sense, the pronunciation emphasized that “in accordance with article 35 of law No. 21,080, and taking into account the resurgence of transnational organized crime, the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (MISP) of Chile signed said agreement to promote, coordinate and encourage measures of prevention and control of crime.”
In the agreement, Chile and Venezuela committed to exchange “biometric and decidaprint information, for investigative purposes” to “achieve efficient and expeditious identification of persons of Venezuelan nationality in Chile, and Chilean nationality in Venezuela, who are allegedly or known to be linked to events.” criminals”, as well as the “updating of the lists of fugitives from justice shared between the parties, with the consequent implementation of active border alerts.”
Parliamentarians
In the letter, the Comptroller’s Office responded to right-wing deputies Gloria Naveillán, Cristian Labbé and Cristhian Moreira, who appealed to the organization to rule on whether there was illegality in the document – within the framework of the criticism that arose following the kidnapping and murder. of the former Venezuelan military officer Ronald Ojeda, perpetrated at the end of February in Santiago – regarding its potential functionality for the persecution of political opponents.
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