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An order from the former commander-in-chief, Óscar Izurieta, authorized irregular payments to military personnel who were losing contributions from millionaires deposited in the Mutual Aid Fund (FAM), a solidarity system Informal in which officers and NCOs deposited funds when retirement arrived, they obtained a sum of money similar to that of a settlement.
Last October, through the reserved resolution 1,585 of the Personnel Command, the Chilean army decided to close without charge the summary ordered by the Comptroller General on misappropriation of resources budget, which allowed the payment of a salary and a daily allowance for work not done and which, according to the information processed by the public prosecutor, could reach more than 3 billion dollars.
The military institution is resolved that no general was responsible for complying with the order issued by former commander-in-chief Óscar Izurieta, who authorized payments soldiers who lost their millionaire contributions to the Mutual Assistance Fund (FAM), a kind of irregular fund created in Coyhaique in which officers and non-commissioned officers deposited money every month and obtained at the same time retirement a sum similar to a settlement
The prosecution and the State Defense Council (CDE) have opened an investigation into this fraud. They have lodged a complaint against 26 former officers of the army. And all of this is happening in the midst of denunciations of former high commanders who are lobbied by institutional pressures to save the army chiefs.
It should be mentioned that the FAM collapsed in 2006 and that it was mainly NCOs who lost millions of dollars in contributions. To mitigate these losses, General Óscar Izurieta of the time decided to repay this money by means of travel expenses and employment contracts, work whose work has never been done. This "compensation" was maintained until 2016, under the administration of General Humberto Oviedo, where it was regularized.
A senior official in the oversight entity indicated that there was a likelihood that the file generated by the army would be returned and sentenced to a penalty. to those responsible, according to Radio Bío Bío.
Sources who had access to the internal army investigation stated that the critics were addressing former chief of staff command, Daniel Aberlt, who had put end its activities by practice. irregular Through a complaint, the latter accused the army's auditor general to urge him precisely to rescue Izurieta as part of the military investigation.
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