PDI Initiates Summary Proceedings Against 10 Active Officials for Travel Abroad During Medical Leave

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The Superintendency of Social Security issued on 26 May an opinion that redefines the use of pre- and post-natal licences, allowing travel within and outside the country during such permits. The document was circulated in full by the Comptroller’s office for the irregular use of fraudulent licences by public officials. The circular was sent hours before the resignation of President Boric’s sister-in-law, who travelled on medical leave.

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The Investigative Police (PDI) initiated inquiries for 10 active officials who travelled abroad while on medical leave.The information is known 13 days after the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) revealed, through a report, that between 2023 and 2024 more than 25,000 public officials incurred this irregularity. These are personnel, of varying degrees, belonging to the Metropolitan Police Region, as reported by TVN's “Special Report”.

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The presidential delegate of Curicó, José Patricio Correa, confirmed today the beginning of an administrative summary against the head of Cabinet of the government entity, Ana María Marchant Herrera. The official will be investigated for allegedly having traveled abroad while on medical license. "In response to the Comptroller's report, where an official of this presidential delegation is identified, among those who would have traveled abroad wh…

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The Investigative Police discovered 10 active officials who made trips abroad while on medical leave. This, in the midst of the scandal uncovered by the Comptroller General of the Republic. “These measures are being taken by the PDI, through its control bodies, with respect to the officials of our institution and who, on medical leave, would have travelled outside the country”, they told Emol from the institution. They also announce that “from t…

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In the last few days it has been possible to notice the public commotion that has provoked a report of Comptroller's office that detected more than 25,000 public officials who traveled abroad while using a medical license, between the years 2023 and 2024, which led even the Public Prosecutor's Office to open ex officio, a criminal investigation and late voluntary resignations have occurred in different sectors of the state apparatus.

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The institution announced summaries that will be carried out by the heads of the officials involved and that “in the absence of any justification, they will be subjected to a serious breach by the law of administrative probity”.