Former vice president of the DC is formalized by fraud

Gianni Rivera, former member of the Directive of Christian Democracy, resigned from the vice presidency and communicated the suspension of her militancy.

This Friday the formalization hearing against Gianni Rivera was held, until Thursday the second Vice President of Christian Democracy (DC)for the crime of Repeated fraud against the Pontifical Catholic university of Valparaíso (PUCV)in which he held the position of Director of Institutional Relations.

He Valparaíso Guarantee Court National roots decreed and, from the Prosecutor’s Office, the head of the Regional Anti -Corruption Unit, Claudio Rebeco, explained that since the 2020s and 2021 “the accused managed the payment of a set of fees of (one) feesthrough which he managed to appropriate college. Those monies were deposited in the current account of that third, who in turn crossed the funds. ”

Rebeco also reported that the maneuvers were made behind the institution and that “what Gianni Rivera told the rector is that an external advice was needed to advise and support small municipalities in their investment project. The university performs this task, the point is that Those services were never provided, so there is a fraud And the university is a victim of these facts. ”

Those years, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, coincide with the period in which Rivera was a candidate for councilor in Viña del Mar.

Rivera renounces the vice presidency and its militancy in the DC

Through a letter addressed to the DC Directive, Rivera presented its “Irrevocable renunciation of the vice president National of our party, in addition I have requested the suspension of my quality as a militant to the Supreme Court, while the process lasts. ”

“I perform these actions to dedicate myself completely to my legal defensebut also for a matter that personally not affecting the PDC, “Rivera wrote.

After formalization, the former vice president declared that “we are going to collaborate throughout the process, since we are convinced that in this whole process It will be demonstrated that no crime has been committed. ”

Gianni Rivera, in addition, was denounced for sexual abuse by his exassor Franco Burgos.Follow us in