2024-08-27 05:15:34
The Prosecutor’s Office is requesting preventive detention for the lawyer, who is accused of tax crimes, bribery and money laundering in the context of the Audios Case.
At 09:45 hours this Wednesday, August 21, the formal hearing began for lawyer Luis Hermosilla in the framework of the Audios Case, where he is charged tax crimes, bribery and money laundering.
In it 4th Guarantee Court of Santiago The lawyer was also charged Leonarda Villalobos, to her partner, Luis Anguloto the former executive of collections of the General Treasury of the Republic, Renato Roblesand the former SII official, Patricio Mejias Esparza.
Link to Factop Case: Hermosilla and Villalobos would have received “large sums of money” from illegal activities
The Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor East, Lorena Parradetailed the link between the Audios Case and the investigation into the financial operations of the brothers Daniel and Ariel Sauer, which is known as the Factop Case.
In this regard, the prosecutor maintained that Luis Hermosilla, Leonarda Villalobos and Luis Angulo Rantul, despite knowing that “the money from Factop SPA and STF Corredora de Bolsa came directly and indirectly from illegal activities, They received large sums of money from companies controlled by Daniel Sauer, Ariel Sauer and Rodrigo Topelberg“.
He added: “These funds were later used for profit by the accused, issuing checks on a date without commercial justification, which were drawn up in factoring companies, pretending to be the product of commercial operations, justifying them by means of ideologically false invoices, all this with the aim of making investments and thus covering their high costs of living.”
In this context, the prosecutor stated that Luis Hermosilla “simulated commercial operations with companies of the Capital group, issuing checks with their mentions left blank to be traded by Factop SpA in the factory’s financial market, justifying part of said operations with ideologically false invoices issued in their favor, which subsequently were cancelledthus obtaining financing with illicit money.”
The millionaire amounts that Luis Hermosilla received
In this way, Lorena Parra explained that the amounts of money that the lawyer received from Factop, STF and other companies managed by the Sauer brothers and Topelberg are:
- In 2017, transfers amounted to $475,979,253.
- And in 2018 the $533,519,215.
- And in 2019 the $1,109,417,677.
- And in 2020 the $1,157,195,457.
- And in 2021 the $1,270,385,597.
- And in 2022 the $897,903,118.
- And in 2023 the $71,675,582.
Considering the above, the total sum would be $5.515.265.899.
In addition, the prosecutor revealed the amounts that the Sauer and Jalaff brothers transferred in envelopes of cash to Hermosilla, which were later deposited in their bank accounts.
- In 2017 Nine transactions were made for $16.639.047.
- In 2018 17 transactions were made for $18.143.683.
- In 2019 15 transactions were made for $21.060.000.
- In 2020 Two transactions were made for $3.678.809.
- In 2021 Two transactions were made for $3.000.000.
- In 2022 Eight transactions were made for $33.961.000.
- In 2023 12 transactions were made for $84.580.000.
- In 2024 Four transactions were made for $7.000.000.
Adding all the transfers, Hermosilla received a total payment of $188,062,539 in cash.
Prosecutors claim that Luis Hermosilla submitted “maliciously false” declarations to the IRS
Regarding the tax crimes for which Luis Hermosilla is accused, the prosecutor stated that the lawyer submitted false annual declarations to the Internal Revenue Service (SII).
“During tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 y 2024the accused Luis Hermosilla He filed maliciously false annual income tax returns, recording the corresponding forms 22 on annual income tax returns, income constituting income for amounts less than those actually received in the respective annual business years, unduly lowering the tax base of the complementary global tax that it was required to bear in said periods,” said Parra.
Along these lines, the lawyer would not have declared income to the SII for more than $1,294 million, generating a fiscal loss of more than $800 million.
The precautionary measures that the Court decreed for the Audios Case
The judge Mariana Leytonfollowing the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, decreed the precautionary measures of total house arrest and national roots to Patricio Mejias y Renato Robleswho were officials of the SII and the General Treasury of the Republic, respectively.
The defendants are accused of committing repeated bribery.
On the other hand, the Prosecutor’s Office requested pretrial detention to Luis Hermosilla, Leonarda Villalobos and Luis Angulowho are targeted for tax crimes.
The formalization of Luis Hermosilla was postponed
After hearing the presentations of prosecutor Lorena Parra and Felipe Sepúlveda, Judge Mariana Leyton decided to suspend the formalization hearing, which will resume this Thursday, August 22 at 9:00 a.m.
This article reports on an ongoing judicial process, so that persons identified as detained or accused should not be considered guilty or treated as such until they are convicted by a final judgment. (Article 4 of the Criminal Procedure Code).