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This Thursday, March 3, at 9:00 a.m., Ricardo Martínez, who until this morning served as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, is summoned to testify as accused before visiting Minister Romy Rutherford. The general of the military institution is being investigated in the case called “fraud in the Army” in the “air tickets” area, which investigates travel agencies that planned cheaper flights and stays that left a balance in favor and that was not I return to the fiscal coffers.
On the morning of this Wednesday, February 3, during your Public Account, Martínez announced that he had submitted his resignation to President Sebastián Piñera on Tuesday followingnoon. His resignation occurs the same day that the defense of the general, the criminal Juan Carlos Manríquez, entered two requirements so that the now former number one in the Army can testify at his home in the Vitacura commune, in addition to another to have access to research folder.
The request presented by Martínez’s defense, to which he had access Third, points out that legally the general has the quality of an active or retired general officer, for which he requests that the investigation be carried out at his private address. In the other request, access to the research folder is requested prior to the appointment next Thursday.
“I request to order prior to the interrogation that is practiced, that the aforementioned and this defense be allowed to have full access to the investigation, in the pertinent line of interrogation in which he has been summoned and to give a full copy of it to prepare the technical defense”, reads in the document. Finally, Manríquez’s brief requests “to allow the presence and intervention of the defense attorney during the proceeding,” according to the request “due to due process.”
This Tuesday, February 1, General Martínez, through his defense attorney, also filed a request to postpone the statement before Rutherford. Despite trying, the visiting minister rejected the request and ratified the meeting for next Thursday, a fact that would have triggered the departure of the highest position in the military institution on Wednesday morning.