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Tag: Manuel Monsalve

  • Wednesday, November 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Sexual scandal now involves Chile's President himself

    Boric claims he was the victim of a woman of legal age who said she loved him

    A case of alleged sexual assault dating back some 10 years has resurfaced against Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font just when the uproar from the scandal involving former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve was waning down with the official in pre-trial detention

  • Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Monsalve case saga: Former official threatened in prison by criminal gang

    Monsalve was to be housed in a special module isolated from the rest of the inmates in Rancagua but that was not enough

    The case of former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve keeps making headlines in Chile even after the former official has been placed under pre-trial detention to face rape charges against a female worker under him. A judge ordered him transferred Friday from the Rancagua Jailhouse to the Capitán Yáber detention facility in Santiago's Metropolitan Region out of security concerns.

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:33 UTC

    Chile: Monsalve placed under pre-trial detention

    At the end of the day, Monsalve was transferred to the Rancagua prison

    Former Chilean Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve was placed under pre-trial detention Tuesday and sent to the Rancagua prison under rape charges following the hearing which had been adjourned from Friday.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Monsalve will remain in custody until Tuesday's hearing

    Monsalve will remain in custody until Tuesday's hearing

    A judge in Santiago Friday adjourned until next Tuesday the arraignment hearing of former Interior Undersecretary Manuel Monsalve, who has been charged with allegedly raping a member of his staff. Whether he would also be held accountable for the abuse of power he is believed to have exerted to conceal the facts is to be decided at another stage. In the meantime, Monsalve will remain in custody at an Investigative Police (PDI) detention facility after being arrested on Thursday at his Viña del Mar home.

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    Chile: Monsalve arrested – arraignment hearing set for Friday

    The charges against Monsalve might go beyond those of a sexual nature and include his maneuvers while still in office to conceal the facts

    Former Chilean Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve was placed under arrest Thursday to face rape charges after allegations in this regard by a member of his staff forced him to resign on Oct. 17, three days after the complaint was filed.

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 10:07 UTC

    Chile: 76% disapprove of La Moneda's management of Monsalve case

    Not many respondents believed Boric should have demanded Monsalve's resignation first thing

    The latest poll published by Plaza Pública Cadem this weekend showed that 76% of respondents during the fifth week of October disapproved of President Gabriel Boric Font's handling of the Manuel Monsalve case while 44% believed the head of state himself was to blame. In addition, 32% considered that the official most affected by the scandal was Interior Minister Carolina Tohá.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 21:40 UTC

    Chile: Monsalve resurfaces in Viña del Mar

    “My silence is due to respect for due process,” Monsalve argued

    After a fortnight virtually in hiding, Chile's former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsavle came back into the limelight Friday in Viña del Mar. His whereabouts had been unknown since resigning following rape charges filed against him.

  • Friday, October 25th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    Monsalve case saga keeps splashing Chilean gov't

    Cordero admitted to having no knowledge of his predecessor's whereabouts

    The departure of Manuel Monsalve as Chile's Interior Undersecretary seems to have been the beginning instead of the end of the problem for the Government of President Gabriel Boric Font. For starters, Monsalve's successor Luis Cordero admitted Thursday that there whereabouts of the man facing rape charges were unknown.

  • Friday, October 18th 2024 - 18:59 UTC

    Chile: Boric picks replacement for Monsalve

    Cordero was somehow demoted from Justice Minister to Interior Undersecretary

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font chose Luis Cordero to replace Manuel Monsalve as Undersecretary of the Interior following the latter's resignation amid an alleged rape scandal currently under investigation, Interior Minister Carolina Tohá announced.

  • Friday, October 18th 2024 - 09:27 UTC

    Chile: Interior Undersecretary Monsalve resigns amid rape allegations

    Monsalve pledged to prove his innocence

    Manuel Monsalve turned in his resignation Thursday as Chile's Interior Undersecretary amid rape allegations. “I have been informed during the course of this week that there is an accusation against me, of which I do not know the details,” Monsalve said. “I have not committed any conduct constituting a crime,” he added while insisting that the reason for his departure was not to have any privilege during the investigation. Monsalve's alleged victim is a woman of legal age who works as an official at the Interior Undersecretariat.

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