The Supreme Court Minister Angela Vivanco suspended On Wednesday, he voluntarily handed over his cell phone and a personal computer to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Personnel from the OS-7 of Carabineros arrived at Vivanco’s home today to seize his phone and other devices for examination.
The diligence was ordered by the Prosecutor’s Office, but according to the defense of the minister, headed by the lawyer Juan Carlos Manriquez, It was they who contacted the Public Prosecutor’s Office to make these devices available for investigation.
Manríquez reported that the judge asked the Los Lagos prosecutor Carmen Gloria Wittwer, that the procedure be carried out at his home.
This is within the framework of the investigation for possible crimes of influence peddling, incompatible negotiation and briberyafter a ruling by the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court was made public, when she was its president, and which benefited the Chilean-Belarusian consortium Belazo Movitec.
Through a video, lawyer Manríquez reported that “In relation to the investigations ordered by the national prosecutor and which were assigned to the Los Lagos Prosecutor’s Office, to Ms. Wittwer, this defense has contacted the Metropolitan East Prosecutor’s Office and the Los Lagos Prosecutor’s Office to make Ms. Vivanco available for all proceedings deemed pertinent.”
“In the same way, we have requested that we be provided with complete copies of the chats attributed to her conversations with Mr. Hermosilla so that we can compare them, verify them, cross-check whether they are in fact complete, unedited, and if they exist, what their context is,” he added.
The lawyer argued that they made “Ms. Vivanco’s electronic equipment available to the Prosecutor’s Office, that is, her telephone and a computer” and that The objective “is to carry out an open, frank investigation, in a fair, just and honest process, which will allow progress to be made in the complete clarification of these events that have so shaken the national judicial and political system.”
The Los Lagos Prosecutor’s Office, through a statement, confirmed “the voluntary seizure of various technological equipment from Minister Ángela Vivanco Martínez,” within the framework of the investigation led by prosecutor Wittwer.
He also indicated that the judge is being investigated for possible crimes of incompatible negotiation, bribery and influence peddling, in the context of the case in which Codelco and the company Consorcio Belaz Movitec SpA (CBM) were parties.
2024-09-11 18:20:16