2024-03-22 14:41:29
Less than two weeks after assuming the leadership of the PDI, it took him a while to begin leaking information reserved for the lawyer.
Less than two weeks since he took over as head of the Investigative Police (PDI) It took Sergio Muñoz to leak records of cases reserved for lawyer Luis Hermosillaas recently revealed by Ciper.
As a result of this, less than three years after taking command of the institution. had to leave office and tomorrow, Tuesday, March 19, it will be formalized.
Since The PDI raided the Hermosilla office on November 16 and confiscated his cell phone, after the revelation of the audio in which the lawyer together with the businessman Daniel Sauer and the lawyer Leonarda Villalobos spoke about bribes to public employees; It was expected that new information would emerge about the case.
However, during the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office A new aspect emerged that ended up impacting the high command of the PDI.
Muñoz’s leaks to Hermosilla
The tests carried out on Luis Hermosilla’s cell phone allowed us to find 12 leaks from Muñoz towards the lawyer, according to Ciper.
According to the publication, the director of the PDI sent the professional information about topics of interest to the latter.
Thus, the June 23, 2021while Hermosilla was the lawyer of Héctor Espinosa, the former director of the PDI accused of embezzling $146 million from the police institution, Muñoz, who had not been in office for two weeks, began to give him background information on the case and the requests made by prosecutor Eugenio Campos..
Another case in which he leaked secret information to Luis Hermosilla occurred on October 25, 2021within the framework of the purchase and sale of Minera Dominga, a business that “was concluded in an off shore jurisdiction,” in a case that had the then president Sebastián Piñera as a defendantas revealed by the same investigative medium.
In addition, Sergio Muñoz leaked relevant data from three other investigations to the lawyer. In one of them, which he disclosed November 2, 2021, Former president Sebastián Piñera was investigated for a possible intervention with which he sought to benefit the Enjoy Casino.
In another investigation, it was sought determine the responsibilities of the former mayor of Vitacura, Raúl Torrealba, in acts of corruption occurred in the municipality. He November 12, 2021 Muñoz sent to Hermosilla shared background information on the corruption case in said municipality.
The third investigation focused on the former mayor and former mayor of Lo Barnechea, Felipe Guevara, regarding an incompatible negotiation through which a project was awarded to his brother Matías Guevara, in the commune of La Granja.
He November 17 of that yearMuñoz sent Hermosilla information about the investigation being carried out on the former communal chief.
The messages
Through WhatsApp messages, Muñoz quickly informed the lawyer of those cases that interested him or in which he was directly involved..
“Casino Enjoy Case -decree 77-, which is being handled by Prosecutor Xavier Armendáriz, tomorrow Mr. José Francisco Moreno Guzmán will be summoned by email and eventually by telephone, to attend the Anti-Corruption Brigade to give a statement as a witness in an upcoming date (a day that is coordinated with him) to find out what his intervention was in the preparation, processing and promulgation of Supreme Decree 77,” Muñoz wrote to Hermosilla on November 2, 2021.
Just three days later, The director of the PDI shared with the lawyer background information on another case in which Hermosilla took part.
“I’ll tell you. In the case called the Dominga Mining Project Sale, led by Prosecutor Claudia Perivancich, today, Friday the 5th, at 11 a.m., BRIAC personnel will travel to the offices of the company Minería Activa Uno Spa, located in the commune of Las Condes, with the purpose of requesting the voluntary delivery of the stock market, contractual and corporate information of said company and its participation in the Dominga mining project. The above was already coordinated by the Prosecutor’s Office with the lawyers of Minera Activa Spa,” he wrote to the lawyer.
Days after, Muñoz provided more information to the jurist.
“Dear Luis, I tell you that I have a request in the Minera Dominga Project case, requiring the voluntary delivery of the articles of incorporation and modifications after December 2010, of the following companies: Bancorp, Odisea, Minera Activa Uno SPA, Minera Activa SA, Andes Iron Ltda, Inmobiliaria Duero Ltda, Inversiones Delmen Ltda and Latin Minerals Limited. This same request will be extended to the private investment fund (FIP) Mediterráneo (PIÑERA) and Rupamanqui (DELANO). For knowledge”