After the Bulnes Guarantee Court rejected a new request from the judicial representatives of the former mayor of San Ignacio, César Figueroa, to revoke the precautionary measure of preventive detention imposed on him by that same court, on April 18, his lawyers went to the Chillán Court of Appeals, where the precautionary change was finally achieved.
Figueroa is charged with the crime of bribery, within the framework of the case known as “Current Accounts”, and in whose investigation, the Public Ministry of Los Lagos (in charge of the case) places him in various meetings with the Chillanejo businessman Rodrigo Carmona , with whom – in accordance with the fiscal thesis – they agreed to favor the Carmona company to be awarded the call for bidding to make a financial balance for the Sanignacino municipality and thus initiate a call to the banks to compete for the management of current accounts consistory.
All in exchange for various payments of money, which Figueroa and other municipal officials received from Carmona (in preventive detention).
Both the Public Ministry and the State Defense Council (complainant in the case) opposed the revocation of the precautionary measure, however, the court considered that due to the time spent deprived of liberty, and considering that none of the pending investigations and proceedings In this case they were directly related to Figueroa, the precautionary measure of total house arrest was decreed, plus the absolute prohibition of approaching the municipality of San Ignacio.
In this way, the only defendants from the Ñuble side who remain in preventive detention are the businessman Rodrigo Carmona, who is accused of being his main collaborator in this corruption network that extends through several regions, Rodrigo Sandoval.
