Chile · International
—The move. Chile’s Supreme Court opened disciplinary reviews of judges and court staff who left the country while collecting paid sick leave.
—The wider scandal. State auditors found more than twenty-five thousand public employees who travelled abroad while supposedly too ill to work.
—The cost. A parallel criminal case over fake medical licences alone is estimated to have cost the public health fund more than twenty billion pesos.
—What a removal file is. It is a formal disciplinary proceeding that can lead to dismissal, not an immediate firing, with evidence and arguments heard first.
