Piñera appoints the admiral of the navy to head the Joint Staff | National

Yesterday, General Arturo Merino, Chief of the FACH, left the Joint Staff

According to tradition, the President was to elect four army generals for the post . however, they chose to provisionally appoint Admiral Rodrigo Álvarez of Armada.

The decision was pbaded despite ongoing investigations in the Attorney General's Office and the ordinary courts for alleged fraud . that they would involve senior officers of the military institution

In view of the foregoing, the Minister of Defense, Alberto Espina, explained that there was as yet no confirmation of the new high command of the military. armed forces, which would prevent the official appointment of the new Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also acknowledged that the army was responsible for the charge.

In one of these cases of alleged fraud in the military, the prosecutor Carlos Palma summoned the summons to be declared as a witness by the former Defense Ministers . period from 2006 to 2016.

This is Vivianne Blanlot, Jose Goñi, Francisco Vidal, Jaime Ravinet, Andres Allamand, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, Jorge Burgos and Jose Antonio Gomez.

The goal is to explain the system used before. transfer tax resources to the mutual badistance fund of the army, which, according to the Office of the Comptroller General, would have caused the state losses of about 180 million pesos.

The first to go to the prosecutor's office was Vidal. At the same time, a new detainee has been added to the investigation into the fraudulent use of surplus banknotes to go abroad.

This is the retired Colonel Fredis Jara Former Chief of the Section of Pbadages and Cargoes of the Army, charged with fraud treasure and put in state of 39, preventive arrest in the military police battalion. in Peñalolén, by order of Visiting Minister, Romy Rutheford