Chilean justice investigates the conventional constituent who claimed to be suffering from cancer

Chilean justice ordered police to make a statement to the Board of Directors of the Constitutional Convention (CC) and to the former Deputy Vice-President Rodrigo Rojas Vade, who admitted to the country that he had never suffered from cancer.

The order was unveiled on Tuesday when the chief prosecutor of the center-north, Patricio Cooper, asked the criminal investigation squad of the investigative police (PDI) conduct a series of proceedings to investigate the existence or not of a crime of perjury for the alleged cancer of Rojas Vade.

Rodrigo Rojas Vade is one of the 155 Convention members that he will draft a possible New Constitution for the country within a maximum period of one year. The defendant was the former Deputy Vice-President of the Convention and a recognized social fighter.

Last Saturday, the conventional admitted The third who did not have mixed lymphoblastic leukemia, and that he should resign from the CC. However, his complete departure from the agency has yet to be confirmed. “I haven’t been honest with you, my family or anyone. Tell them I lied about my diagnosis, I don’t have cancer», Admitted Rojas Vade, known in the country for having participated in the massive protests of 2019.

Prosecutor’s Office investigative order follows after CC board sends all information to this body for possible crimes against Rojas Vade, who had declared a debt of 27 million dollars (34,188 USD) for “cancer chemotherapy treatment”.

Among the prosecutions ordered by prosecutor Cooper, the statement of Rojas Vade, whose fate is unknown, stood out.. It is said that the conventional could take shelter in the municipality of Pomaire, in the municipality of Melipilla, although this has not been confirmed.

The Rojas Vade affair dealt a severe blow to the CC and the transversal rejection of all political sectors. For example, MP Aracely Leuquén, who suffers from cancer, said that it is “a disease from which thousands of Chilean women and men in our country suffer”. and that with this “we do not play politically”.

PDI will make statements to the Board of Directors

Among the most important procedures to be carried out by the PDI will be the calling and hearing of witnesses before the board of directors., in this case to the president of the CC Elisa Loncon and to the vice-president Jaime Bassa.

The latter is a priority since both are the plaintiffs and must endorse the criminal action they have presented.. It is believed that this Thursday the two authorities will declare to the PDI. “As a board of directors, we are grateful that the deal we filed yesterday has been taken to the prosecution and express our entire willingness to collaborate with the process, ”said Loncón.

Once Loncon and Bassa’s declaration is over, the three detectives who will investigate this case will summon Rojas Vade answer the charges against him.

With the declaration of Rojas Vade The PDI will seek to clarify information on the interests and assets of the accused, and whether it has been “sworn” or not, as it is an important element in the configuration of the possible crime of perjury.

On the other hand, the detectives will be responsible for receiving the information requested by the prosecutor Cooper from the controller, where the request and the position of the interviewee were processed.

Other procedures

Among the other procedures that are to be carried out in the next few hours, there is one that has involved the Ministry of Health (Minsal) of Chile. The prosecutor Cooper instructed this ministry to send all the files and antecedents of the passage of Rojas Vade as a user of the public health system.

To the above also the investigation of possible crimes for carrying out raffles and economic demands for payment for the treatment of the alleged cancer has been added marked by Rojas Vade. The latter could constitute the scene of a possible scam.

Rojas Vade’s fake cancer even had an echo in the National Parliament, where a group of deputies presented a proposal to add reasons for resignation which apply to conventional as well as to parliamentarians.

Finally, in case of confirmation of the offense of perjury, the Chilean judicial system considers a sentence ranging from 61 days to 3 years in prison.

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