A Chilean prosecutor who led one of the world's most aggressive investigations of sex abuse allegations against the Roman Catholic Church now faces removal from his post amid claims of impropriety involving a drug case and other official duties.
Chile´s national prosecutor Jorge Abbott on Wednesday asked the
Supreme Court to ratify his recommendation that Emiliano Arias, a prosecutor in the provincial town of Rancagua, be sacked for "bad behavior and negligence".
In a statement sent to Reuters, the national prosecuting authority said an internal investigation found Arias had passed classified information about a drug trafficking case to his sister, failed to investigate leaks from his team to the media and failed to allocate resources to a fellow prosecutor.