Sauer had benefited from Santiago’s fourth guarantee court with a modification of precautionary measures, which also included national roots.
The businessman Daniel Sauer will return to pretrial detention in the Penitentiary Annex Captain Yáber, after a decision of the Court of Appeals that revoked the precautionary medity of house arrest Total I had obtained just a week ago.
The entrepreneur is one of the main figures investigated in the Factop case, a alleged network of economic crimes that involves unregulated financial companies and eventual fraud that would have generated millionaire damages.
Sauer is being investigated for alleged crimes of repeated fraud, unfair administration, invasion of the bank turn, violation of the Securities Market Law, money laundering and tax crimes.
-What happened?
Sauer had benefited from Santiago’s fourth guarantee court with a Modification of precautionary measureswhich also included national roots.
However, the Public Ministry appealed to the resolution, arguing that there were no sufficient foundations to grant the change, He consigned Radio Biobío.
This Friday, Justice welcomed the arguments of the persecuting entity and He resolved that Sauer must continue in pretrial detentionthe same measure that he had fulfilled for more than a year before his brief passage for house arrest.
“Given the seriousness of the crimes for which it has been formalized, and the assigned penalties (…) in particular, it was considered that the course of time in this regard It was not a sufficient foundation to replace the precautionary measure. That is, it does not necessarily have been subjected to preventive detention for a year will justify a change of measure, ”said Juan Pablo Araya, prosecutor of the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office.
