2024-08-29 15:08:31
The Prosecutor’s Office described Hermosilla’s role with the Sauer brothers and Jalaff, based on various chats that allude to former President Piñera and members of his cabinet.
At 09:20 hours this Thursday, August 22, the second day of formalization against the lawyer began Luis Hermosillawho is charged with tax crimes, bribery and money laundering in the context of the uproar Audios Case.
After the judge Mariana Leyton decree the precautionary measure of house arrest and national roots for former collections executive of the General Treasury of the Republic, Renato Roblesand the former SII official, Patricio Mejiasthe Public Ministry requests the pretrial detention for the rest of the accused: Luis Hermosilla, Leonarda Villalobos and her partner, Luis Angulo.
The role of Luis Hermosilla between the Sauers and the Jalaffs
The head of High Complexity East, Miguel Angel Orellanabegan his presentation by mentioning Marcelo Medina’s chats with Daniel Sauer, where the issuance and receipt of ideologically false ballots. In this regard, he showed ballots that link the Sauer brothers with the Jalaff group.
Medina, who worked for nearly 19 years with the brothers Álvaro and Antonio Jalaff, testified before the Prosecutor’s Office on August 8 and provided certified copies of chats, whose testimony would be key to uncovering the eventual criminal plan of the Jalaff brothers that the Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of.
After that, the prosecutor detailed the role that Hermosilla had in “This mixture of criminal interests between Mr. Sauer and Mr. Jalaff“.
“Based on the background information gathered during the investigation, it is considered that he is a brother (of the Jalaffs), who is not only interested in the procedural or legal-technical matters of the professional or personal activities of Mr. Jalaff, but also in their financial results. And in the end he takes advantage of the prosperity or success and suffers from the financial problems of Mr. Jalaff, but above all the excess of the work of Luis Hermosilla with respect to Mr. Jalaff, has to do with his role as counselor, counselor in the broadest sense of the word. And that includes the areas linked to criminal activity,” he explained.
In this context, Orellana detailed Hermosilla political operation in the second term of the former president Sebastian Pinerareading some chats that allude to the appointment of Sebastián Sichel in BancoEstado.
“This news is sent to you Alvaro Jalaff to Luis Hermosilla and asks him Is this good for us? Luis Hermosilla answers: not good, too good. Intimate, intimate from ACH (Andrés Chadwick), Whenever you want, Sichel will go to the office, there we have to do safe things. He tells her: Help me with Sichel, please. Luis Hermosilla tells him: I called him and he didn’t answer.. And he sends him Sebastián Sichel’s contact information,” was part of what he revealed.
The transfers that Luis Hermosilla received
After that, the persecutor continued reading conversations between Luis Hermosilla and Jalaffwho tells him about his financial situation and the debts he has, detailing interests in Factop.
Later, records of several transfers received by the renowned lawyer were shown, after he asked Jalaff to deposit them for him. The image shows thatThe money he received in his personal account at BCI bank came from Factop.
The chats between Leonarda Villalobos and Luis Hermosilla
Another point that the head of High Complexity East highlighted was the dialogue that he held Villalobos and Hermosillawhich would demonstrate the link between the two.
“Luis Hermosilla says How are the Sauers?Maria Leonarda Villalobos sends a document to Luis Hermosilla, this samesays Luis Hermosilla. But there are no more payments, it has been just that one, I am investigatingsays Maria Leonarda Villalobos. Just that one, Luis Hermosilla tells him,” he said.
She also claimed that she sent various documents about STF Corredora de Bolsa to Hermosilla on June 5, 2023, “including a document called Antonio Jalaff, which corresponds to a client file.”
Regarding the above, Orellana assured that it is “very important”, since within the framework of the representation that both lawyers made to STF in the Financial Market Commission, “one of the evidence that was gathered by the Financial Market Commission was a chat like this one, a chat that was called Indexes. And that Index chat He was constantly reporting on how funds were being injected irregularly from Factop, from Guayasamin, from Ariel Sauer, from Daniel Sauer, and also from Álvaro Jalaff and Antonio Jalaff to the STF, to maintain the brokerage’s liquidity and investment indices in an irregular and artificial manner to keep it alive“.
The decision on the precautionary measure remains pending
After almost five hours of hearing, Judge Mariana Leyton announced that the formalization will continue this Friday, August 23 with the presentation of the plaintiffs in the caseand then move on to turn of the defenses, which according to the magistrate’s planning, should be presented next Monday 26th.
In this way, the rThe decision on the precautionary measure against the accused will take place next week.
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).