In a week that has been marked by the arrest of a Chilean for the theft of the United States National Security Secretary, it was announced that 23 people committed crimes in the foreigners were arrested in Chile in an operation carried out by the Investigation Police (PDI) with support from the FBI.
As detailed by the head of the Metropolitan Metropolitan Money Laundering Brigades (Brilac), “today, today realizes a police operation that was achieved The arrest yesterday from more than 23 people to starting from a joint work that gives an account of Chilean citizens who are committing crimes abroad. “
According to what he explained, it is a criminal group which committed crimes mainly in the United States. “They are people who are committing crimes in the United States, crimes against property, crimes of robbery, theft instead inhabited, also crimes that in another way affect the assets of people in North America mainly,” he said.
The PDI official explained that the investigation began in 2024, while noting that “here we are in the presence of a criminal group that is acting in an organized way to commit crimes outside our jurisdiction and to be able to intern the illicit resources and the heritage to be able to hold it here in our country. ”
As he explained, these subjects used different mechanisms to get out of the country and enter mainly to the United States to commit these crimes.
During the operation, 26 homes from the Metropolitan Region were intervenedand various amounts of drugs were seized (cannabis sativa and cocaine hydrochloride), 19 vehicles, 2 motorcycles and 2 firearms, in addition to cash and other high -value goods.
“There is a heritage also detected over the 1.3 billion pesos and that today, together with the Prosecutor’s Office, all necessary measures are being taken to ensure,” he explained.
For his part, the Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor, Marcos Pastén, said that “it is a joint work in which There has been international cooperation by the United States FBI and the Cooperation Agency of the Investigation Police in conjunction with the Prosecutor’s Office, which has paid off very important and that have allowed, linking the crimes committed in North American territory with the money laundering that is taking place in Chile. ”
Along the same lines, the chief prosecutor of Pudahuel, Eduardo Baeza said that “lThe United States Police gave us evidence. Very important evidence that we are delivering to the court and that allow us, I think, or will allow us to prove the existence of the base crimes in the United States that would be, in this case, Criminal Association “.
At the same time, in relation to the detainees, he pointed out that “they are international spears, they are dedicated to that. Many of those subjects here in Chile have no history, they have nothing, but internationally have a criminal career there.”
