Communist Mayor Daniel Jadue arrested and given 120 days of preventative detention

The case against Daniel Jadue has its origins in 2021, when the medical supply company Best Quality filed a lawsuit for fraud against ACHIFARP, insisting that the company had sold supplies to the association and were not paid for it and that there was an existing 1 million dollar debt. Following this, several other lines of investigation were opened up by the Prosecutor regarding the municipality’s people’s pharmacy, over “illicit activity” conducted by employees. Then in 2023, the Comptroller’s Office filed charges against Recoleta’s mayor, accusing him of failing to uphold probity while leading ACHIFARP.

lawfare alive and well seems like

This is what is called “formalization”, meaning, there are merits to detain and investigate him, plus they want to prevent he can escape while doing so. He is still non-guilty, until proven otherwise, but the public always see this as guilty.

There is still a lot to dig to find if they had a million dollars in the first place at all. Someone approve that sell, and if they had it, someone took it and probably left the country for good.

It feels very implausible Jadue didn’t know what was happening, but who knows if someone (or a couple of guys) decided to play cards below the table for that amount of money. Anything could have happened.