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Former Head of Chile's Investigative Police Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Corruption

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By Nayara Batschke, Santiago (AP) — Former Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) Director General Héctor Espinosa was sentenced Monday to 17 years in prison for embezzlement, forgery of public documents, and money laundering, and was also permanently barred from holding public office. In mid-November, Santiago's Fourth Oral Criminal Court found the former official guilty of misappropriating approximately 146 million pesos (about $156,000) in funds …

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On December 31, 2020, the Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into acts of corruption against the then director of the Investigative Police (PDI), Héctor Espinosa. Since then, five years have passed until Monday morning the former chief of the civilian police was sentenced to 17 years in prison.The sentence was unanimously adopted by Judge Carolina Escandón and Judges Cristian Soto and Pedro Suárez of the Fourth Oral Criminal Cour…

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By Nayara Batschke, Santiago (AP) — Former Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) Director General Héctor Espinosa was sentenced Monday to 17 years in prison for embezzlement, forgery of public documents, and money laundering, and was also permanently barred from holding public office. In mid-November, Santiago's Fourth Oral Criminal Court found the former official guilty of misappropriating approximately 146 million pesos (about $156,000) in funds …

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The entry Sentenced to 17 years in prison to former director of the PDI, Héctor Espinosa; Chile and Peru agree joint patrols at the border, and State must compensate owners of the former German Fuente for “abandono” since the social outbreak was first published in CIPER Chile.

The former director general of the Chilean Investigative Police, Héctor Espinosa, was sentenced on Monday to 17 years in prison for embezzlement and forgery of public instrument and laundering of assets, in addition to being permanently disqualified from holding public office. In mid-November, the Fourth Oral Criminal Court of [...] The entry Sentenced to 17 years in prison the former chief police officer of Chile for corruption was first publis…

The Fourth Oral Court in Lo Penal de Santiago sentenced the former Director General of the Investigative Police (PDI), Héctor Espinosa, convicted as the perpetrator of the crimes of embezzlement of public funds, forgery of public instrument and laundering of assets. The former highest authority of the civilian police was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

On Monday, the sentence was handed down to the former director general of the PDI, Héctor Espinosa, who was found guilty of the crimes of embezzlement of public funds, falsification of public instrument and laundering of assets. The court imposed a total sentence of 17 years in prison on the former authority, divided as follows: 12 years for embezzlement of public funds in conjunction with the forgery of public instrument. 5 years and one day fo…

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Cooperativa broke the news in on Monday, December 1, 2025.
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