Doctor Harmut Hopp is currently being prosecuted for the death of MAPU militant Juan Maino. Now, he must answer why he was purchasing guinea pigs. The enormous arsenal at Colonia Dignidad was allegedly intended to defend against an external attack.

Detective Nelson Jofré arrived, as he did any other day, to take statements at the Public Health Institute (ISP), formerly known as the Bacteriological Institute. He was following the trail of biological weapons used by DINA chemist Eugenio Berríos and the possibility that they were related to the death of President Eduardo Frei Montalva.

But he obtained more than that, and, unexpectedly, in December 2000, he generated a classified document that became the first clue Judge Jorge Zepeda had regarding the existence of a bacteriological laboratory at Colonia Dignidad.

It is a document processed by the Personalized Technical Channel of the Fifth Department of Investigations, dated January 8, 2001, which contains a series of testimonies regarding the use that the DINA and the CNI made of the ISP for various experiments. Among them were toxins that were sent to the Army's Bacteriological Warfare Laboratory.

But that is not all. Veterinarian Sergio Romero Medel told Jofré that Colonel (Ret.) Sergio Rosende, one of the colony's leaders and a high-ranking member of the Army's secret laboratory, had gone to buy rabbits for experiments around 1980, and had also requested laboratory mice from the ISP without authorization.

Shortly thereafter, Doctor Harmut Hopp did the same—the very man whom Judge Zepeda has prosecuted and placed in preventive detention alongside Paul Schäfer.

Weapons and rabbits

“On one occasion, in mid-1980, a doctor from Parral arrived to buy laboratory rabbits. Years later, I recognized him as the Colonia Dignidad doctor, Harmut Hopp,” Romero recounted.

Until now, Judge Jorge Zepeda, who is consolidating all the cases against the former Villa Baviera, did not have significant information regarding a possible laboratory. However, this lead adds a certain level of suspicion to an investigation that he will now have to deepen.

It is even possible that he could review the file being processed by Judge Alejandro Madrid regarding the death of Eduardo Frei Montalva, where there may be information that will help him untangle this great web of relationships.

This week was particularly loaded with news about Colonia Dignidad. The discovery of weapons, added to the secret archives of the German enclave, confirmed a series of rumors and assertions that had been circulating about the German enclave.

But the fall of the former Villa Baviera did not begin this week. It started last year, when Judge Joaquín Billard led a secret investigation to find Paul Schäfer's whereabouts in Buenos Aires, which ended last March with the arrest of the leader along with several of his guards.

In parallel, Zepeda began investigating the death of MAPU militant Juan Maino Canales, and from that case, he managed to get several colonists to tell the truth. Some provided the locations of cars belonging to the forcibly disappeared, which have already been unearthed.

Others revealed the location of the weapons and archives. The latter, unearthed during the week, are in the hands of the national police intelligence headquarters for drying and treatment. Afterward, they will undergo a meticulous analysis and classification that will allow for a deeper understanding of the structure of Colonia Dignidad.

However, one of the most relevant facts of the process is still missing: finding the remains of the forcibly disappeared. Zepeda, meanwhile, has pointed out that one should not pin hopes on possible findings, because the work is slow and silent, and does not necessarily yield the expected results.

What comes next

Zepeda is known for his prudence and assertiveness, the same qualities that led him to solve the so-called Letter-Bomb case, in which former Office agent Humberto López Candia and intelligence analyst Lenin Guardia were convicted for a letter-bomb they sent to the United States Embassy in the days following the attack perpetrated by Al Qaeda on September 11, 2001.

Other sources in the case, however, indicated that they are very close to finding at least two disappeared persons from Parral.

According to information gathered by LND, Zepeda is evaluating the application of the anti-terrorism law against the colonists who hid information, as well as against those responsible for the importation and burial of weapons.

However, he faces problems with some plaintiff lawyers, who wish to prosecute the colonists who provided quality information for the discovery of the weapons, cars, and archives.

In this vein, the judge would opt to imprison only the hardest core of the leadership closest to Schäfer, understanding that many colonists acted out of fear of authority and not by executing a conscious intent. In other words, due obedience.

The mystery of the tank

Although journalistic versions published by “La Segunda” indicated that a tank had been built inside the colony, the truth is that it was only an armored vehicle (which may have been a pickup truck) with several inches of steel on the sides, which in turn had a turret with a machine gun for 7.65 mm projectiles. It was the closest thing to a chapter from the history of “The A-Team.”

Other sources also comment that an electric car had been built inside Colonia Dignidad. But so far, there is no evidence of this in the judge's judicial process.

The fact is that during the raids carried out by the judge and the Investigative Police, more than 100 submachine guns, rocket launchers, M-16 rifles, SIG rifles, anti-personnel mines, and laser telescopic sights, among other artifacts, were found.

Investigative sources assure that this is very old weaponry, but in very good operational condition, capable of being used at any moment.

The colonists had a defense plan for the enclave that dates back 30 years, where each member of the colony had a specific mission in case of an attack or escape.

The structure that has been revealed for defending the enclave is the closest thing to the defense plan against a hypothetical attack on a barracks that any military regiment would have.

Police sources comment that the former Villa Baviera, around the 90s, could have become a Chilean Waco, drawing a parallel with what happened in the United States with the spiritual leader David Koresh, of the “Branch Davidian” sect, which ended in a shootout with the FBI and 85 “believers” dead.

The period of mystery and secrets of Colonia Dignidad is coming to an end, and a large part of the people who still live in that enclave want to rebuild their lives, far from the sinister figure of Schäfer, who, luckily for many, is behind bars along with his closest collaborators.

Source: lanacion.cl, June 19, 2005

The former leader of Colonia Dignidad and fugitive from Chilean justice was sued for the cases of Juan Maino, Elizabeth Rekas Urra, and Antonio Elizondo, 3 people who disappeared in the German enclave of Parral.

Representatives of 3 victims of Colonia Dignidad filed a lawsuit with the Krefeld prosecutor's office in Germany against Doctor Harmut Hopp. The number 2 of the German enclave has been on German soil as a fugitive from Chilean justice since May.

The lawsuit was filed by Berlin lawyers Petra Schlägenhauf and Wolfgang Kaleck and focuses on the cases of Juan Maino, Elizabeth Rekas Urra, and Antonio Elizondo, who disappeared during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

As the lawyers explained, the lawsuit was filed in light of the evidence that Hopp will not be extradited to Chile, as he is a German citizen, and with the objective of having him answer to justice.

The legal team will base their lawsuit on the charge of direct participation in murder, a crime that does not expire, and not on other documented cases of injury, torture, or rape, since these would have expired in Germany.

Hopp, 67, and born in Germany, fled Chile last May, months after being sentenced in Santiago to 5 years and one day for complicity in sexual abuse committed between 1993 and 1997. His escape occurred while he was under house arrest and taking advantage of the fact that the sentence was not yet final.

Shortly after, he was located by German media in the city of Krefeld, whose authorities confirmed he had signed a lease agreement with a local real estate agency. Friday, October 7, 2011, El Mercurio

Manuel Contreras was sentenced to 15 years for the kidnapping of a MIR militant

The visiting judge of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Alejandro Solís, sentenced the director of the dissolved DINA, Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, to 15 years in prison, without any benefits, for the qualified kidnapping of MIR militant Agustín Reyes González, which occurred starting May 27, 1974, in the commune of Macul.

For this act, former agents Miguel Krassnoff Martchentko, Marcelo Moren Brito, and Basclay Zapata Reyes were also sentenced to the same penalty. The victim was detained by six DINA agents and taken to Londres 38, where he was subjected to a series of tortures, and his whereabouts remain unknown to this day.

Source: lanacion.cl, October 6, 2011

Supreme Court asks Germany for Hartmut Hopp to serve sentence for sexual abuse in that country

The former doctor of the former Colonia Dignidad, who fled the country in September 2011, was sentenced by the visiting judge of the Talca Court of Appeals, Hernán González, for his complicity in 16 cases of sexual abuse of minors inside the German enclave, a sentence that was confirmed at the beginning of 2013 by the highest court.

The Supreme Court requested the German justice system that citizen Hartmut Hopp Miottel serve the sentence of five years and one day in prison in that country for being an accomplice to the sexual abuse of minors in Colonia Dignidad.

Hopp, who fled the country in September 2011, was sentenced by the visiting judge of the Talca Court of Appeals, Hernán González, for his complicity in 16 cases of sexual abuse of minors inside Colonia Dignidad, where he worked as a doctor, a sentence that was confirmed at the beginning of 2013 by the Supreme Court.

In a unanimous ruling, the Second Chamber, composed of judges Hugo Dolmestch, Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, and the acting lawyers Luis Bates and Jorge Lagos, accepted the request of the Foreign Ministry and the plaintiff lawyer in the case to complement the extradition request made at the beginning of the year, in the event that the delivery of the requested person does not proceed.

The decision was based on the International Treaties signed by Chile and the Federal Republic of Germany and given the restriction that exists in that country's Constitution not to extradite citizens of that nationality to other countries.

"Without prejudice to the fact that the central idea of the aforementioned ruling is naturally to obtain the delivery of the requested person, keeping in mind the restriction imposed by the German Constitution and in the sole event that the aforementioned request is denied, with the object of preventing the impunity of the crimes for which Hopp Miottel has been tried and convicted, and taking into consideration, furthermore, that the Law on International Judicial Assistance in criminal matters of June 27, 1994, authorizes the German State to provide assistance through the execution of an applied sentence, the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the plaintiff parties, and the State Defense Council will be granted," the ruling states.

"As can be seen, the objective sought by the cited international agreements is the prevention of impunity and the favoring of the rehabilitation of the sanctioned person, objectives that are met both with the main request for extradition, if one keeps in mind that Hopp Miottel lived for many years in this country and fled from it due to the judicial process that was followed against him, and if it is ordered that he serve the sentence in his country of origin, where he currently resides," the sentence establishes.

Therefore, it determines: "The sentence of July 24, 2013, regarding these same records, by which the extradition of the convicted Hartmut Wilhelm Hopp Miottel was declared appropriate, is complemented, in the sense that, in the event that the requested extradition is denied, it is ordered that the aforementioned serve the sentence of five years and one day of major imprisonment in its minimum degree that corresponds to him, in the requested country, that is, in the Federal Republic of Germany."

Source: elmostrador.cl, July 3, 2014

Fugitive Leader of Colonia Dignidad: Supreme Court Approved Extradition of Doctor Harmut Hopp

In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court approved the request for the extradition to Germany of Dr. Harmut Hopp, sentenced to 5 years and one day in prison as an accomplice to 4 crimes of rape and 16 cases of sexual abuse recorded in the former Colonia Dignidad, accepting the petition of the visiting judge of the Talca Court of Appeals, Hernán González. “Between Chile and the Federal Republic of Germany there is no Extradition Treaty, so it is necessary to resort to the General Principles of International Law,” the ruling maintains.

The text states that “it is appropriate to request the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany for the extradition of the German citizen Hartmut Wilhelm Hopp Miottel, for the responsibility attributed to him, as an accomplice to four crimes of rape of a minor and sexual abuse of another 16 minors, as mentioned in the first foundation of this resolution.”

In a unanimous ruling, the judges of the Second Chamber of the highest court, Milton Juica, Hugo Dolmestch, Carlos Künsemüller, and Guillermo Silva, determined to accept the petition presented by the visiting judge of the Talca Court of Appeals, Hernán González García.

According to the ruling of the highest court, although there is no extradition treaty between Chile and Germany, it is appropriate to grant the request, in accordance with the norms of international law.

“Between Chile and the Federal Republic of Germany there is no Extradition Treaty, so it is necessary to resort to the General Principles of International Law, as prescribed by Article 637 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Since ancient times, this Court has considered that such principles are clearly manifested in the Havana Convention of February 20, 1928, which approved the Code of Private International Law, and in the Convention of the 7th International American Conference, ratified by Chile on July 2, 1935, as well as in the bilateral treaties signed on the matter by various countries and in the doctrine supported by the generality of scholars (S.C.S. roles 29.402, of November 25, 1992, 2221 – 2000, of July 17, 2001, and 1548 – 2005, of May 24, 2005),” the ruling maintains.

The resolution adds: “In the case examined, the penalties assigned to the crimes for which the requested person has been convicted are greater than one year of deprivation of liberty; they are common crimes, as opposed to political ones, perpetrated in national territory; and the penalty has not expired.

Although it is true that Article 16 of the German Basic Law (regarding deprivation of citizenship, extradition, right of asylum) establishes in its second paragraph that, “No German may be extradited to a foreign country,” the truth is that Article 19 of the same Law (regarding the restriction of fundamental rights) maintains that a fundamental right may be restricted by or by virtue of a law, which must have a general character, while Article 32 (regarding Foreign Relations) contemplates the development of relations with foreign States as a concern of the Federation, the same one that has intervened in the signing of international treaties that seek the protection of minors, who have been precisely the victims in the process followed against the requested person, who, abusing the respect for the constitutional guarantees in force in this country and having fraudulently obtained his freedom while his process was being processed, fled this country to seek refuge in a provision of the German Basic Law to which he did not submit during the long years he remained in this country and during which he committed a series of injustices for which he must be judged.”

Therefore, the chamber considered that “It is appropriate to request the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany for the extradition of the German citizen Hartmut Wilhelm Hopp Miottel, for the responsibility attributed to him, as an accomplice to four crimes of rape of a minor and sexual abuse of another 16 minors, as mentioned in the first foundation of this resolution.”

The ruling maintains that for the fulfillment of what was resolved, the Minister of Foreign Affairs should be notified to arrange the diplomatic steps that are necessary and conducive to that end.

Source: reddigital.cl, November 22, 2015

Former leaders of the “iron circle” of Colonia Dignidad surrender to Justice

They are Kurt Schnellenkamp, Gunter Schaffrik Bruckmann, Gerhard Mücke, and the Chilean Dennys Alvear. The Supreme Court determined on January 28 that all of them must serve effective prison sentences.

During the morning of this Tuesday, four former leaders of Paul Schäfer's “iron circle” at Colonia Dignidad surrendered to justice to serve sentences for having been accomplices to sexual abuse, rape, and kidnapping of minors.

They are Kurt Schnellenkamp, Gunter Schaffrik Bruckmann, Gerhard Mücke, and the Chilean Dennys Alvear.

On January 28, the Supreme Court sentenced six leaders of the German enclave to effective prison terms for these crimes, although 16 were sentenced in this case. In addition to those who arrived today at the Talca Court of Appeals, there are Gerd Seewald and Harmut Hopp, who has been a fugitive in Germany since 2011.

The accused received the following sentences:

Hartmut Wilhelm Hopp Miottel: 5 years and one day as an accomplice to the rape of 4 minors.

Gerhard Wolfgang Mücke Koschitzke: 11 years in prison as an accomplice to the rape of 4 minors and kidnapping.

Gunter Schaffrik Bruckmann: 11 years in prison as an accomplice to the rape of 4 minors and kidnapping.

Gerd Seewald Lefevre: 11 years in prison as an accomplice to the rape of 4 minors and kidnapping.

Kurt Herbert Schnellenkamp Nelaimisckies: 5 years and one day as an accomplice to the rape of four minors.

Dennys Ricardo Ramón Alvear Henríquez (Chilean): 8 years and 180 days in prison. 5 years and one day of effective prison as an accomplice to the rape of 4 minors and three sentences of 61 days in prison for refusing to hand over three minors.

Source: radio.uchile.cl, February 19, 2013

Colonia Dignidad: investigation against Hartmut Hopp closed

The former spokesperson for the German enclave was prosecuted for illicit association in the investigation into human rights violations. The doctor is in Germany.

The visiting judge of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Jorge Zepeda Arancibia, decreed the execution and closed the investigation against Hartmut Hopp Miottel, prosecuted for the crimes of illicit association in the investigation into human rights violations in the defunct Colonia Dignidad.

The resolution was issued today, October 26, 2012, after the judge received communication from the German government that it would not grant the extradition request made by Chile because he is a German citizen protected in this type of process.

On October 18, 2011, the Supreme Court approved the extradition request for Harmutt Hopp Miottel, prosecuted for the crime of illicit association and various cases of human rights violations committed in what was also known as the former Villa Baviera.

On August 12, 2011, Judge Zepeda had requested the extradition, based on the norms of the Havana Convention, after Hopp Miottel fled the country in May of the same year.

The investigations by Judge Zepeda determined that Hopp arrived in Germany on May 15, after a week-long trip that began by land from Chile to Argentina and Paraguay, without Interpol having obtained immigration records for Hopp in these countries.

The information on the fugitive's travel route is endorsed, among other background information, in the email he sent from Germany to the representative of the Hemodialysis Clinic in the city of Parral, to whom he communicated his resignation and told details of his escape.

The investigation into the crimes of illicit association and other crimes in the former Colonia Dignidad continues regarding other people investigated by Judge Zepeda.

Source: soychile.cl, October 12, 2012

Prosecutor Maldonado recommends requesting extradition of Hartmut Hopp to Germany

The Supreme Court prosecutor, Mónica Maldonado, recommended accepting the extradition request for Hartmut Hopp Miottel, sentenced to 5 years and one day in prison for his responsibility as an accomplice in four crimes of rape of a minor under 12 years old and 16 cases of sexual abuse of minors, crimes perpetrated in the former Colonia Dignidad.

Prosecutor Maldonado determined to accept the petition made by the visiting judge of the Talca Court of Appeals, Hernán González García, to the government of Germany, the country where Hopp Miottel has been residing since 2011.

According to the resolution of the Supreme Court prosecutor, it is appropriate to request the extradition, based on the principles of International Law, as there is no extradition treaty between Chile and Germany. "This prosecutor's office estimates that the extradition request for the German citizen Hartmut Wilheim Hopp Miottel to the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is appropriate in accordance with universally recognized principles of International Law, so that said convicted person is extradited and serves the sentence applied in the individualized case," maintains Prosecutor Maldonado in her resolution. In the event that the German government does not grant the extradition request, Prosecutor Maldonado recommends that the German authorities be requested to ensure the sentence decreed is served in that country. "Without prejudice to the above, it is the opinion of the prosecutor's office that, by virtue of the universally recognized principles of International Law that bind States, and in the situation that the present extradition request is accepted and the Federal Republic of Germany eventually denies it, it should request said country to arrange for the sentences imposed on the convicted Hopp Miottel to be served in that country," she adds. Hopp was sentenced to prison terms along with Gerhard Mücke Koschitzke, Gunter Schaffrik Bruckmann, Dennys Alvear Henríquez, Kurt Schnellenkamp, and Gerd Seewald Lefevre. Last February, the first four arrived voluntarily at the Parral Court of Letters, where they were notified of their sentences by the judge of the Talca Court of Appeals, Hernán González, and were held in the Cauquenes prison, in Maule. Gerd Seewald Lefevre, sentenced as an accomplice to rape, abduction, and refusal to hand over minors, did not appear in court on that occasion, but hours later he was arrested on a public street in Parral and placed at the disposal of justice.

Source: emol.cl, July 8, 2013

Supreme Court sentences former leaders of Colonia Dignidad for rape and kidnapping of children

Cameras and microphones of some national media obsessively pointed, this weekend, to the acting president of Cuba, Raúl Castro, who was attending the CELAC-EU summit in Santiago. The Government, pressured by the UDI, was making efforts to request cooperation for the crime of Jaime Guzmán.

However, victims of crimes of greater significance—because they were committed against children—were left without the possibility of demanding that German Chancellor Angela Merkel hand over Harmuth Hopp, who fled in May 2011.

A velvet-gloved move by the Supreme Court prevented the final sentence that sends half a dozen former leaders and frontmen of Paul Schafer to prison for crimes as serious as sexual abuse, kidnapping, and rape of minors from being known this Friday, hours before the start of the summit of countries.

In Germany, there are several organizations that for more than 30 years have demanded that their State provide information and collaborate to clarify the crimes committed. Recent investigations confirm that Germany knew about these crimes and they demand to know why nothing was done about it.

El Dínamo had exclusive access to said sentence, issued unanimously by the Criminal Chamber of the highest court. And it is the most important action that the justice system has taken during the long years of impunity since the complaints about human rights violations and crimes committed against Chilean and German children became known.

After the first and second instance convictions, the Supreme Court took almost a year and a half to make this decision, which was signed by judges Milton Juica, Hugo Dolmestch, Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, and the acting lawyer Jorge Lagos.

To Prison

One of the most relevant conclusions of this ruling is that it was determined that Paul Schafer committed repeated rapes and sexual abuses. Previously, these acts had been classified only as indecent abuse, which implied the determination of low penalties.

In this way, then, the main convicts will have to go to prison for 11 years. They are Gerhard Wolfgang Mücke Koschitzke, Gunter Schaffrik Bruckmann, and Gerd Seewald Lefevre, convicted as accomplices to the rape of four children and kidnapping.

Likewise, the fugitive doctor Hartmut Hopp Miottel (fugitive in Germany), Kurt Herbert Schnellenkamp Nelaimisckies, and the Chilean Dennys Ricardo Ramón Alvear Henríquez were convicted as accomplices to the rape of the minors. The latter two must serve effective prison time.

Among the cases that could be considered emblematic, but which are little known by current public opinion, is that of the minor Rodrigo Salvo, for whom it was determined that he was kidnapped and raped by Paul Schafer.

Regarding this minor, it was determined that the Germans kidnapped him and kept him captive against his will and that of his mother between 1997 and 1999, so that during the investigation that was being carried out at that time, it would not be possible to find his whereabouts.

The ruling maintains that “it was carried out with the object of taking him away and hiding him from the police who were looking for him by order of the court, having also been proven that he was taken to different cities in the country by a group composed of several people—led by a member of the former Colonia Dignidad—who disposed of his life for an approximate time of two years.”

His own father, who was separated at that time from the minor's mother, maintains that “he was recruited by members of Villa Baviera, for which they went to look for him in Santiago where he resided, offering him a monthly payment of $200,000, for which they simulated an employment contract.” Pedro Salvo Bahamóndez was also convicted but was granted the benefit of supervised release for 4 years.

The sentence that the Supreme Court has just issued also confirms that the commercial company that is today the successor to the Colonia Dignidad companies must pay compensation to the families of the children, now adults, who were victims.

According to this, more than 50 million pesos must be paid to each victim, increased by the adjustments and interest of the time elapsed.

The lawyer for 11 of the 16 victims, Hernán Fernández, expressed satisfaction with the decision and assured that “this is the most relevant action in the 50-year history of crimes committed inside Colonia Dignidad.”

Faced with the silence of both the Chilean and German States, the professional highlighted that “it was not the powerful Germany nor the authorities of our country who exercised a constant and decided action to avoid impunity. It was humble families, peasants, of our country, who allowed justice to be done and did what the States should have done.”

Likewise, he announced that they are going to exercise actions so that German regulations are complied with that allow their citizens convicted in other countries to serve their sentences on German soil.

According to the data obtained in the sentence, the convicts are the following:

Effective prison sentence

1. Gerhard Wolfgang Mücke Koschitzke, 11 years in prison (5 years and one day of effective prison, as an accomplice to the rape of a minor; plus 3 years and one day for refusal to hand over 4 minors. And 3 years and one day for the kidnapping of Rodrigo Salvo).

2. Gunter Schaffrik Bruckmann (in charge of organizing the youth in Colonia Dignidad), 11 years in prison (5 years and one day of effective prison, as an accomplice to the rape of a minor; plus 3 years and one day for refusal to hand over 4 minors. And 3 years and one day for the kidnapping of Rodrigo Salvo).

3. Gerd Seewald Lefevre (director of the intensive boarding school), 8 years and 180 days in prison (5 years and one day of effective prison, as an accomplice to the rape of a minor; plus three sentences of 61 days in prison, for the refusal to hand over 3 minors).

4. Dennys Ricardo Ramón Alvear Henríquez, 8 years and 180 days in prison (5 years and one day of effective prison, as an accomplice to the rape of 4 minors; plus 3 sentences of 61 days in prison, for the refusal to hand over 3 minors).

5. Hartmut Wilhelm Hopp Miottel (fugitive), 5 years and one day of effective prison, as an accomplice to the rape of 4 minors.

6. Kurt Herbert Schnellenkamp Nelaimisckies (former leader, liaison with the community), 5 years and one day of effective prison, as an accomplice to the rape of 4 minors.

7. Uwe Cöllen Gert, 3 years and one day; plus three sentences of 61 days, as an accomplice to rape and accomplice to three crimes of sexual abuse.

8. Peter Schmidt Spinti (Paul Schafer's bodyguard), 3 years and one day as a cover-up for four crimes of rape of a minor and sexual abuse against 16 minors.

9. Friedhelm Zeitner Bohnau, 3 years and one day as a cover-up for four crimes of rape of a minor and sexual abuse against 16 minors; plus three years and one day for the kidnapping of the minor Rodrigo Salvo Fuentes, committed between the years 1997 to 1999.

10. Matthias Gerlach Maschke, 3 years and one day as a cover-up for four crimes of rape of a minor and sexual abuse against 16 minors.

11. Renate Freitag Hartmann (Schafer's personal nurse), 3 years and one day as a cover-up for four crimes of rape of a minor and sexual abuse against 16 minors.

12. Pedro Juan Salvo Bahamondez, 3 years and one day for the kidnapping of the minor Rodrigo Salvo Fuentes, committed between the years 1997 to 1999.

13. Wolfgang Müller Altevogt, 3 years and one day for the kidnapping of the minor Rodrigo Salvo Fuentes, committed between the years 1997 to 1999.

14. Rudolf Hans Cöllen Franzkowky, sentenced to 541 days, as the author of the crime of refusal to hand over a minor.

15. Olalia del Carmen Vera Gutiérrez, 541 days for the refusal to hand over 3 minors.

16. Hugo Ernesto Hidalgo Díaz, 541 days, for the refusal to hand over a minor.

Source: eldinamo.com, January 28, 2013