He Guarantee Court of Antofagastain a hearing to review precautionary measures of Paz Nickol Carol Andrea Fuica Contrerasagreed to revoke the preventive detention previously requested by the defense of the councilor with suspended membership in Democratic Revolution.
The Antofagasta councilor, accused by the Public Ministry as the author of crimes of fraud against the treasury, had been serving preventive detention since last January 12 in the Female Penitentiary Center (CPF) of said city.
Fuica would have perpetrated these crimes within the framework of agreements signed between the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning (Minvu) and the Living Democracy Foundation. These agreements would have been signed between October and December 2022 and involved the transfer of public funds for a total of $426.00.000.000.
The hearing to review the precautionary measures took place this Monday, March 4, where the accused of the so-called Living Democracy Case He participated remotely from his place of detention, at the CPF in Antofagasta.
In this instance, the guarantee judge Juan Pablo Torres Molina revoked the precautionary measure after ruling that the preventive detention measure “appears to be disproportionate.” This is because the investigation is complex and “long-term”, so the precautionary measure “cannot be established as an anticipated penaltysince its purpose is not to punish, but rather a different one, which may be to prevent the risk of flight, to prevent the risk to the safety of the victim, or to prevent the success of the investigation proceedings,” the magistrate concluded.
