Daniel Jadue should be placed under house arrest or signed monthly

Recoleta Mayor’s lawyer filed an appeal to change the precautionary measure to preventive detention. “There are no precedents qualified that allow the Tribunal consider that the preventive detention of my client is essential for the success of the investigation proceedings” was indicated from the defense of the communal chief of Recoleta.

“The century”. Santiago. 6/10/2024. Ramón Sepúlveda, defense attorney for the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue, filed an appeal to reduce the preventive detention measure applied to him by Judge Paulina Moya for alleged crimes of fraud against the Treasury.

In the process it was indicated that there is no “need for caution that makes the decreed measure necessary, there clearly being other precautionary measures that allow the purposes of the procedure in this case to be ensured.” Along these lines, it was proposed that the action taken be changed to a monthly signature with national roots or total or partial house arrest.

Ramón Sepúlveda, in the appeal, indicated that the mayor “has a 24-year-old daughter with whom he is very close and an 80-year-old mother, who suffers from serious illnesses, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, essential tremor, of walking and use of a pacemaker, all of which can undoubtedly worsen with the deprivation of liberty of your son.”

“There are no qualified antecedents that allow the Court to consider that the preventive detention of my client is essential for the success of the investigation or that his freedom is dangerous for the safety of society or of the victim (the Municipality of Recoleta), or that there is a risk of flight,” argued Daniel Jadue’s lawyer.

The mayor served a week of preventive detention in the Capitán Yáber Annex, as ordered by the judge of the Third Guarantee Court of Santiago. The appeal to remove this precautionary measure will be heard by the Court of Appeals of Santiago on Tuesday or Wednesday.

In response to the accusations against Jadue, the defense reiterated that “the entire charge is based on the testimony of three witnesses, who were part of the company, who indicate that two of them had a meeting with my client, but there is no material element that gives plausibility to this theory presented by the Prosecutor’s Office, which has blindly believed the version of these two witnesses who had an obvious secondary gain, which was to seek payment for products that, in the words of the Public Prosecutor’s Office itself, had been delivered to Achifarp at a value ten times higher than the commercial value.”

Meanwhile, Lautaro Carmona, president of the Communist Party, of which Daniel Jadue is a member and leader, said on CNN-Chile that “from my point of view, this precautionary measure (of preventive detention) is an exaggeration” and insisted that the accusations against the mayor “have to be proven when the full trial is held.”

Deputy Ana María Gazmuri stated that “I agree with the defense (of Jadue), I still do not see any solid argument that tells me that it was necessary to order preventive detention, there being clearly other measures that allow ensuring the purposes of the procedure, such as, for example, house arrest.”