2024-07-05 06:03:49
The appellate court made it clear that the Public Prosecutor’s Office has judicial authorization to seize Luis Hermosilla’s phone and “empty” its contents.
The Santiago Court of Appeals rejected the appeal for protection filed against the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the State Defense Council, for the review of the cell phone of lawyer Luis Hermosilla, within the framework of the investigation for corruption crimes.
The Seventh Chamber of the appellate court established that the protection appeal is not the appropriate way to control the investigation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and that Mario Vargas must resort to the ordinary processing of criminal cases if he considers himself affected by the investigation.
In its ruling, the Court of Appeals stressed that “it cannot direct the investigation of the prosecuting body, which is autonomous, and it will be this institution that will ensure, in its investigative work, not to reveal, neither to those involved nor to third parties, transcripts of exchanges of messages that have nothing to do with the oft-mentioned investigation.”
Along with this, he made it clear that the Public Ministry has judicial authorization to seize Luis Hermosilla’s phone and “empty” its content, which “has not revealed the content of the transcripts, which total 770,000 pages, nor the conversations” of the lawyer with his colleague Mario Vargas, plaintiff in the case against Daniel Jadue.