Jorge Alfredo Guajardo Rojas
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Background
Jorge Alfredo Guajardo Rojas
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Case summary
Jorge Alfredo Guajardo Rojas was an Army Major and CNI agent who served as the Head of the Treasury for that agency during 1989. In the exercise of his duties, he managed the funds allocated to finance various repressive operations, which led to his judicial involvement in the case of the homicide of Jécar Neghme Cristi.
MemoriaViva[1]
Case No. 39.122-D: Homicide case of Jécar Nehgme Cristi ttt) Statement by Jorge Alfredo Guajardo Rojas from page 1897, who indicates that during the year 1989 he served as Head of the Treasury Department of the Central Nacional de Informaciones, in which the resources allocated for the operation of that security agency were managed and kept in a checking account at the BCI Bank, Vicuña Mackenna branch.
He states that the procedure for the delivery of funds for the different operations carried out by agents of the Central Nacional de Informaciones was conducted through receipts with the approval of the Director, who at the time was General Gustavo Abarzúa Rivadeneira, and the corresponding checks were issued without including the name of the beneficiary, and the only thing they kept as a record was a receipt which contained the signature of the Director, in addition to the signature of the person who withdrew the document.
Source: Judiciary, July 26, 2006
Jorge Alfredo Guajardo Rojas: CNI
Jorge Alfredo Guajardo Rojas
. Operational name: Manuel Lira. Born in 1953, he entered the Military School in January 1973. In 1988, he was assigned to the CNI Logistics department and, after two months, was appointed Head of the Treasury.
He managed the agency's funds and distributed them to finance various operations. “The resources were managed in a checking account at the BCI bank, Vicuña Mackenna branch at the corner of Avenida Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins,” he said in 2005 during the investigation into the death of Jécar Neghme.
Source: Book: "La Trampa" (Ed Lom), 2018
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