The Eco Prosecutor’s Office and the PDI anti -rib bipe achieved the arrest of Seven criminals linked to Kidnappings In the Metropolitan Region.
The first of the events occurred on October 25, 2024, when Two Chilean womenaged 43 and 25, they were kidnapped.
Both were taken to a domicile of La Pintana, where subjects They kept them in captivity for about 15 hours.
Finally, they were released after a payment of $ 7 million.
Meanwhile, the second case occurred on January 7, 2025, When two other Chilean womenaged 32 and 17, they were kidnapped for about 6 hours, also in La Pintana.
Both, relatives of a person who is in jail, were left free after a payment of $ 500 million.
“A person who was deprived of liberty, to whom They kidnap their partner and their daughtermanages to pay the amount of $ 500 million pesos for the release of these people, ”said Hassel Barrientos, head of the Bipe.
The two kidnappings were made by the same band, where the investigation identified seven of its members.
Raids in 20 homes
Therefore, an operation was carried out that allowed the seven subjects to be arrested, after A search of 20 homes of the capital.
According to Barrientos, all of them are Chileans, “linked to different criminal structures in the southern sector of the capital “. In addition, he did not rule out that they may have perpetrated more kidnappings.
The procedure also allowed seizure modified firearms, extended loaders and vehicles used as logistics for the commission of crimes.
Finally, he captured four other subjects for various crimes and that had a pending arrest warrant, as well as flagrance for drug trafficking.
Imitation of foreign bands
For his part, the coordinating prosecutor Eco, Héctor Barros, said that this confirms A mutation in the crimes committed by Chileansmutating what foreign bands such as the Aragua Train do
“What we are seeing today, indeed, is a mutation of the national phenomenon in terms in which what has begun to produce is a kind of Imitation of behaviors that transnational organizations are having, ”he said.
He added that “in this case it is only national crime. They are people who They live in different places in the Metropolitan Regionespecially in the southern zone of Santiago. ”
