In April of this year, the Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dirincri) of the PNP captured the Chilean citizen Francisco Coeymans, former general manager of the financial company Primus Capitalwho was a fugitive from Chilean justice after being accused of perpetrating a million-dollar scam against said company.
Given this situation, the Public Ministry of Chile requested before the 4th Guarantee Court of Santiago to initiate an extradition process against Coeymans.
Said court headed by Judge Estefanía Asenjo concluded today that there is sufficient antecedents to decree the preventive detention of the accused, declaring the admissibility of requesting extradition in Peru, reported La Tercera de Chile.
Now, the extradition request must be raised and resolved by the appeals court. The Financial newspaper reported.
The former executive of the second most relevant non-banking factoring in the area is investigated for a series of economic crimes such as fraud, money laundering, forgery of private instruments and computer espionage.
“Given the seriousness of the accusations; the miseries assigned to the crimes charged; the nature of the crimes (taking into account that foreign citizens were used in their commission), the amount associated with the fraud, which, although estimated, far exceeds the maximum values indicated by the law for property crimes; that the crimes would have been committed in a group or gang; as well as that there would have been attempts of the accused to eliminate evidence and even threatening executives who worked for him in the company, this court considers that there is an obvious danger to the security of society and to the success of the investigative proceedings,” recorded the court’s resolution.
He added that “the previous conduct of the accused, since he became aware that he would be formalized by these events, in addition to the existence of audios that would give an account of his intention to leave the country if formalized for these crimes, his failure to appear at the formalization hearing and his failure to return to Chile, once he was able to do so, a situation for which an extradition procedure is even being requested, this court “he sees a latent danger of flight.”
Source: Gestion
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