Former Security Advisor to President Gabriel Boric is summoned to testify as a witness in the US.

lucia dammert former security adviser to Genaro García Luna —Secretary of the Interior of Mexico between 2006 and 2012— and former security adviser to the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric was summoned as a witness by the United States Attorney’s Office in the trial to be held against the former, arrested in 2019 for his alleged collaboration with the Sinaloa cartel.

Dammert, who until this week was one of the people closest to the Chilean president, must appear in the New York Prosecutor’s Office to give his testimony about the time in which he collaborated with Garcia Luna with whom he even wrote a book on police reform and security policies.

According to the Chilean digital media “Interference”, Dammert would have agreed to testify “voluntarily” before the Prosecutor’s Office, which accuses García Luna of being one of the key people responsible for the growth of the Sinaloa cartel, to which he would have provided information to protect himself and even commit crimes.

The alleged links between the former Mexican minister and the aforementioned criminal organization came to light during the trial of the cartel leader, Joaquin Guzman Loera better known as “El Chapo Guzmán”, imprisoned for life in the US.

According to a US police source quoted by “Interference” in its publication this Thursday, “She is not the one that interests us, but we are interested in knowing everything that can help in the trial against García Luna.”

However, he warned that “we have some serious suspicions that she could have covered up some actions, but for now we have not talked about arresting her because she has been collaborative. Of course, this may change as the investigation progresses.”

According to “Interference”, Dammert was on the list of people who next week were going to accompany Boric on his official trip to the UN Assembly in New York, a trip in which he apparently planned to testify, a decision of the that according to the same means he would not have informed the Presidency.

This same Thursday the newspaper Ex-ante exclusively announced the dismissal of Dammert but in its article it alluded to internal political quarrels, without citing the legal problem in the US.

The appointment of the adviser already generated controversy, last March, after the media recalled that she had already been a security adviser to the former Peruvian Prime Minister Solomon Lerner during the mandate of Ollanta Humala.

“The Press Office of the Presidency of the Republic informs that today, Thursday, September 15, HE the President of the Republic has accepted the resignation of the head of advisers on the second floor of the Palacio de La Moneda, Mrs. Lucía Dammert Guardia” , reads the statement from the Presidency.

Lucía Dammert served as chief of advisers to the Second Floor of the Government of Gabriel Boric. The sociologist is leaving the environment of the Chilean president due to alleged internal disagreements, according to local media reports.

Source-larepublica.pe