📋 Tender Overview
Increasing penalties for the theft theft and receipt of telecommunications cables is the main objective of the project that modifies various legal bodies in this regard and was approved with 36 votes in favor and 1 abstention.The initiative which was presented by Senators Carmen Gloria Aravena Mara Jos Gatica Alejandro Kusanovic Manuel Jos Ossandn and Kenneth Pugh was able to fulfill its second procedure in the Chamber of Deputies.It was Senator Jos Miguel Insulza who in his capacity as president of the Public Security Commission explained the scope of the initiative that in essence modifies the Criminal Code and the General Telecommunications Law to increase the penalties for the crimes of robbery theft and receipt of telecommunications cables.This law exists for telephony and what is done is to change that term to that oftelecommunications and equipment which includes advances in technology said the senator.During the vote on the initiative Senators Ivn Moreira Kenneth Pugh Francisco Chahun Ximena Ordenes David Sandoval Fidel Espinoza Jos Miguel Durana Carmen Gloria Aravena and Claudia Pascual intervened who valued the changes being made because the crime known as the cablazo has effects on thousands of people.In this regard they recalled that technological advances have resulted in many people depending on them which poses new challenges in the protection of rights and in the protection of services provided through telecommunications.They added that the theft of cables or cablazo has become repeated and that a daily average of 60 crimes of this type is registered especially because of the low penalties associated with it and the high price of copper. In this regard they pointed out that there are organized gangs that even export copper or sell it clandestinely.The senators emphasized that this initiative seeks to protect critical national infrastructure and advance in security matters.
