They revealed that the former mainstream Chilean voter who lied about his suspected cancer suffered from faking disorder

Before the Seventh Guarantee Court of the Metropolitan Region (Santiago), the aeronautical prevention technician and former member of the Constituent Convention Rodrigo Rojas Vade He appeared to face a formalization for the crime of residual fraud, as a perpetrator and to a consummate degree. Likewise, the Chilean judicial authorities, through a forensic report, revealed that the former conventional activist recognized during the social epidemic of October 2019 and who later invented suffering from cancer, suffers from a faking disorderwhat used to be called Munchausen syndromewho was speaking in Rojas Vade since he self-medicated to generate non-existent ailments.

The Public Ministry of Chile, in this way, required a sentence of 61 days imprisonment minor in its minimum degree and a fine of 11 UTMi.e. 680,000 Chilean pesos ($863.60). The hearing, meanwhile, was set for mid-December last year and was postponed due to the prosecutors’ strike.

Rojas Vade, for his part, was investigated after the Board of Directors of the Constitutional Convention reported him to the Central North Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office for “acts that may have the nature of a crime”.associated with the declaration of interests in which he registered a debt of 27 million pesos (US$34,117.62) with a bank in Chile (Scotiabank), for a “chemotherapeutic treatment against cancer”, which He admitted not having after a report from the Chilean newspaper The third.

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The illness he feigned made him an icon of the marches following October 18, 2019. His role in the protests led him to stand as a conventional candidate for the Metropolitan Region’s 13th constituency and, later, to obtain 19,379 votes.

Upon discovering his deception, the former Deputy Vice President of the Constitutional Convention formally resigned from the body on March 11, 2022, which was accepted by the Electoral Qualification Tribunal (TRICEL) after four days. Also, on Monday, the Chilean prosecutor’s office gave a series of testimonies from victims deceived by Rojas Vade who participated in raffles and made donations in favor of the fake cancer patient.

“I showed the whole country my health situation with a different diagnosis, long before I was a candidate for the conventional (…) Maybe I shouldn’t have said what my symptoms were and they started asking me for help, but even today I have to keep figuring out why from time to time i was bleeding, i had ulcers, vomiting, dizziness, headaches and my skin was breaking out”, assured Rojas Vade during his testimony before the prosecution, as verified by the aforementioned media. It should be noted that the former activist, months after his scandal, said he suffered from syphilis, immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and Behcet’s disease, in addition to other conditions.

In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) clarifies that this disorder is not the same as simulating a disease, because if a disease or symptom is simulated to obtain a specific income, there is no real psychiatric pathology. In the case of Rojas Vade, would be what is called a “fictional self-imposed disorder”.

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