The previous entry on this topic has 115 posts, so reviving it for the latest robbery news, starting off with the theft of the contents of entire shipping containers from the Port of San Antonio:
The director general of the PDI, Eduardo Cerna, explained that the criminal structure attacked trucks transporting containers from San Antonio, or simply stole their cargo “through false documentation at the ports themselves, also relying on privileged information.”
The metropolitan western regional prosecutor, Marcos Pastén, emphasized that all the items the gang sold were “easily reduced,” such as televisions, appliances, and clothing.
Along these lines, he highlighted the impact on criminal assets, stating that 15 checking accounts were frozen, with transactions amounting to approximately $6 billion pesos.
Considering the hoops and circles we had to go through to get our first checking account, I wonder how these crooks always manage to have multiple accounts.
And during the dieciocho celebrations at the Pampilla in Coquimbo, two separate gangs, one Chilean, the other Peruvian, were caught with a haul of over 100 cellphones, plus other goodies.
Apparently the thieves get $35.000 for each phone in Persa BioBio
If only Chileans could refrain from buying and selling dodgy merchandise, this wouldn’t be such a boom “industry”.
Two senior Registro Civil functionaries stole the office not-so-petty cash, then concocted a false breakin narrative.
Investigators were surprised when they reviewed the videos, as well as other clues, and discovered that two employees of the same agency were responsible. And not just any official, but the office manager Carmen Audala (31), and her deputy, Fabiola Esparza.
Audala was caught on camera faking the breakin on a day when she was supposedly absent from work on “sick leave”.
So twenty containers were stolen from the port of San Antonio and as of now, only two have been recovered in the Región de Coquimbo (the location of Pan de Azucar coincidentally matches feargle’s previous post). If related to the above, the person who received the stolen container got his stolen container stolen and reported it and then got busted for the first steal. The rest of the containers are thought to be scattered around the country.
