Prosecutor’s Office opens summary for review without permission of the investigative folder of the Monsalve Case

For her part, Manuel Monsalve‘s defense lawyer, María Inés Horvitz, ruled out that the former Undersecretary of the Interior has already given a statement to prosecutor Xavier Armendáriz.

The Public Ministry initiated an administrative summary and a criminal caseafter detecting that a series of officials throughout the country They had access to the investigative folder maintained by the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office for the rape complaint against Manuel Monsalve.

As detailed by La Segunda, among the background information contained in the folder are the statements of those involved, in addition to the expertise carried out by the Legal Medical Service (SML).

This situation was revealed thanks to a monitoring system implemented by the national prosecutor Manuel Valencia for the traceability of the information. and address the numerous leaks that the Prosecutor’s Office has faced in recent times.

Monsalve Case

Monsalve’s lawyer rules out a statement to the Prosecutor’s Office

For her part, Manuel Monsalve’s defense lawyer, María Inés Horvitz, ruled out that the former Undersecretary of the Interior has already given a statement to prosecutor Xavier Armendáriz.

Horvitz specified, upon leaving the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, that she had just had a first meeting with the persecutor.

“It was a first approach, a meeting with the prosecutors, we simply talked about things between prosecutors and defense lawyers, nothing that was relevant,” said the defense lawyer.

Along with denying that Monsalve has confronted the Prosecutor’s Office, in addition ruled out that the former authority would meet with the complainant’s family, emphasizing that his client “is trusting his innocence.”

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