Woman charged with billion-peso fraud in Temuco: "There are no defenseless senior citizens here"

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TEMUCO.- 39 year-old Alejandra Romero Santibáñez is spending her fifth day in custody at the Temuco Woman’s Penitentiary.  The woman is a former Corpbanca employee being charged with six cases of fraud worth approximately $1.7 billion pesos.

Romero was arrested by the Economic Crimes Department of Police Investigations last Thursday after it was suspected that she had been using the name of a fictitious company to gather money to invest in foreign corporations, and then reporting the highest profitability on the market.  Police believe the woman may have been aided by her husband, Jorge Gabriel Sepúlveda.

“There are no defenseless senior citizens here, my clients, all of them, have a high degree of cultural and financial education.  Most of them have an above-average IQ; they work and live by conducting important business.  I would have to be a witch to be able to deceive them and I don’t have any clients who have been deceived or conned” Alejandra Romero said during an exclusive interview with the Diario Austral of Temuco.

“I have been charged with fraud, which is absolutely false”, she added.