2024-08-30 23:44:27
The National Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the chats between Luis Hermosilla and the former prosecutor in charge of the Penta Case, Manuel Guerra,
Conversations via WhatsApp between Luis Hermosilla and the former prosecutor in charge of the Penta Case, Manuel Guerraput the latter in the sights of the National Prosecutor’s Office, while the lawyer must serve preventive detention while he is investigated for tax crimes, bribery and money laundering in the framework of the Audios Case.
This was announced by Ciper Chile, a media outlet that confirmed that “There are several exchanges via WhatsApp between former prosecutor Manuel Guerra and lawyer Luis Hermosilla that are being reviewed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office“, while stating that the intervention of the jurist was due to his concern that the case could affect his partner and friend Andrés Chadwick, and the late former president Sebastián Piñera.
In conversation with Ciper, former national prosecutor Sabas Chahuán confirmed that Luis Hermosilla “He asked me for several names. If we were going to summon them to testify. I told him that we were doing some formalities and that I couldn’t tell him in advance. And he asked me if we were going to summon (Sebastian) Piñera and (Andres) Chadwick to testify.“.
The chats between Luis Hermosilla and Manuel Guerra for the Penta Case
It was in this context that Lawyer Luis Hermosilla made contact with Manuel Guerrawho was then serving as head of the Eastern Regional Prosecutor’s Office and He was in charge of the investigation of the Penta Case.
According to what was reported by Ciper, “in one of the dialogues, dated in 2016, Hermosilla and Guerra talk about having to contact Andrés to give a way out to the Penta Case. They are referring to Andrés Chadwick, a friend and partner of Hermosilla, as well as a cousin and confidant of President Piñera.”
The press release also stated that the aforementioned chat “It is not the only one where Hermosilla and Guerra talk about the Penta Case“.
In this regard, former prosecutor Chahuán recalled that he received “a call from Luis Hermosilla after the defense of the owners of Penta –Carlos Delano and Carlos Lavin– they handed him over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office Background that revealed links between Penta and several companies linked to the circle of friends or partners of former President Piñera and there was speculation in the media that relatives… including Minister Chadwick… could be summoned to testify.”
However, the contact between the then prosecutor and the lawyer was not restricted to the Penta case, since Manuel Guerra also “He was the prosecutor who initiated the investigation into the sale of the Dominga mining project, which involved President Sebastián Piñera and his family.cause in which he decided definitively dismiss the deceased presidentafter nine months of investigation,” Ciper recalled.
What happened to Manuel Guerra after the “ethics classes”
It was on July 31, 2021 when Manuel Guerra left his position as head of the Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office and, the next day, he was hired by the Association of Municipalities for the Security of the Eastern Zone (Amszo), “which includes the municipalities of Lo Barnechea, Vitacura and Las Condes, which were led by mayors of Chile Vamos, the political sector most closely linked to illegal financing provided by Penta and that Guerra had investigated,” Ciper recalled.
Nevertheless, Finally, Guerra’s incorporation into the entity was frustratedfollowing the publication of a press report that addressed the issue in depth.
However, the former prosecutor in charge of the Penta Yes, he got a job as a teacher at the Faculty of Law of the University of San Sebastián.which was later incorporated Andrés Chawick as dean.
Some time later, Chadwick himself, one of the colonels of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and friend and partner of Luis Hermosilla, He assumed the role of president of the board of directors of the same higher education institution.