Ángel Valencia admitted that he also met with Andrés Chadwick when he was applying to be a professor at the San Sebastián University, a position from which he resigned after assuming the Public Ministry.
The national prosecutor Ángel Valencia recognized that He held meetings with the lawyer Luis Hermosilla and the former Minister of the Interior of Sebastián Piñera, Andrés Chadwick, after taking over as head of the Public Ministryalthough he asserted that none of them addressed cases in legal proceedings.
According to what Valencia stated, these meetings took place “a few weeks” after he took office as national prosecutor, and he asserted that The last time he exchanged messages via WhatsApp with the lawyer who remains in preventive detention for the Audios case was in June 2022.“before I even applied for the Prosecutor’s Office,” he said in the interview he gave to T13 Radio.
He remembered at the same time that In October 2022 he began working “half-time for three months at the University of San Sebastiánand, of course, with Andrés Chadwick I had had conversations to see if it was possible to enter or not enter, things like that. And that is not in the WhatsApp messages, or if they are perhaps, at least I don’t have them“, he stated.
“Although he is not the one who hires, there is no doubt that his opinion is very relevant for the purposes of entering the university, and (…) I am also grateful for the efforts he carries out there.“added the national prosecutor.
In the interview, Ángel Valencia admitted that later “I met up with Hermosilla for coffee, and also with Andrés Chadwick. This was a few weeks after I had joined the Prosecutor’s Office, also only for a personal matter.“.
The “tense and uncomfortable” meeting between Ángel Valencia and Hermosilla
Asked about the reasons he had for meeting with both Hermosilla and Chadwick, the head of the Public Ministry recalled that “In the process of appointing a national prosecutor there was a fight in the mudwhich was a little more mud, a fight in riles, I would say.”
Ángel Valencia recalled that in that period there were many who tried to avoid his appointment as national prosecutor, and that when he left the University of San Sebastián “I told Andrés Chadwick, who was the dean, tell Hermosilla that things happen, colleagues remain. that I I have no history that (Hermosilla) has been involved in any of these dirty practicesin everything that had happened to us“.
He said that a few weeks later Andrés Chadwick called him “and he told me that Hermosilla wants to meet with me to give explanations and to resolve those rough spots.“.
On the other hand, in another interview he gave to Cooperativa radio, prosecutor Valencia explained that in the meeting he had with Hermosilla, the lawyer spoke to him about the possibility of carrying out an abbreviated procedure in the case of the former director of the PDI, Héctor Espinosaaccused of various crimes.
“I told him that this depended on the prosecutor in charge, but also that I was going to do everything possible to prevent it from happening, because in a case as clear as that it is not appropriate. It was tense and uncomfortable.“, acknowledged the head of the Public Ministry.