2024-09-19 12:52:27
The two judges, who are in charge of emblematic cases of human rights violations such as the Caravan of Death, have also been implicated in accusations of irregularities within the highest court.
The Audios case opened a real “Pandora’s Box” within the Supreme Courtsince it revealed a series of episodes that would account for episodes of influence peddling and other irregularities in the Judiciary, which has led to the announcement of a series of constitutional accusations against those involved, where The names of María Teresa Letelier, Ángela Vivanco and Jean Pierre Matus stand out, along with judges such as Mario Carroza and Sergio Muñoz.
The first voice of warning about the situation of Judge Mario Carroza, in charge of emblematic cases such as the Caravan of Death, the Burned Case and the deaths of Alberto Bachelet, Pablo Neruda and Eduardo Frei Montalva, she raised it Deputy Camila Flores (RN), who announced that her party’s bench would prepare a libel against her.
This, after the conversations he had with the now former magistrate Juan Antonio Poblete, of the Court of Appeals of Copiapó, came to light in a Ciper report. to “type” notary appointments.
“If we are going to constitutionally accuse Supreme Court ministers of illegality, of breaches of integrity, of ethical or moral reproaches, it must be against all those who have committed these same actions. And by the way, Mario Carroza is one of them. Beyond Mario Carroza’s long and historic record of breaches of integrity and the legitimate questioning that many of us have about how he has administered justice, so to speak, what we are talking about here is something very different, which certainly allows us to justify the constitutional accusation from a legal point of view in order to initiate it,” argued the parliamentarian.
Given this scenario, Mario Carroza appeared calm and expressed that the presentation of an accusation against him is part of the powers of the Legislative Branchtelling CNN Chile that “Congress, in this case the deputies, have every right, because they are using their oversight powers and I think it is very good that they exercise them.”
Asked if he was afraid of being disqualified, Carroza stressed that “no. On the contrary, we are public authorities who have to be subject to public scrutiny.”
The information leak that complicates Sergio Muñoz
Another judge who has been in the eye of the storm in recent days is Sergio Muñoz Gajardo, who at one time was in charge of the Tucapel Jiménez Case, the investigation against Claudio Spiniak and the case against Riggs Bank.
Muñoz, who is part of the controversial Third Chamber of the Supreme Court – like Mario Carroza and until a few days ago Angela Vivanco – He was denounced by Fundamenta Real Estate for leaking information to his daughter, the judge of guarantee Graciela Muñoz.
In the presentation made by the lawyer Marco Antonio Fuentes, the judge of the highest court is accused of to provide “sensitive and detailed information” to his daughter regarding the process of returning bonds for the promises of purchase and sale of two apartments that the lawyer carried out.
“Graciela Muñoz points out to Valentina Riquelme (executive of Fundamenta Real Estate) that This process can take years and I don’t think I want to, or can wait that long, and I can tell you this with knowledge, not because I’m a lawyer, but because my father is the one who sees this whole issue, since he is part of the Supreme Court.“, reads part of the complaint published by El Mercurio.
Along these lines, The judge of guarantee confided to the executive that Sergio Muñoz recommended her to “move the money from the project”This, while a series of appeals filed by the real estate company were pending in the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court, presided over by Muñoz.
For Fuentes, this “leads to determining that the privileged information that Minister Mr. Sergio Muñoz had was used to try to ensure that his daughter, Graciela Muñoz, obtained an economic benefit from the money invested in the various projects of Inmobiliaria Fundamenta.”