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The return of Pablo Longueira to the political arena went with everything. He even pointed out that the charges against him in the SQM case – where the Prosecutor’s Office accused him of bribery and multiple tax crimes – respond to a political persecution by the State Defense Council (CDE), in particular of the doctor in Law María Inés Horvitz, whom he called a “communist”.
Immediately, the CDE itself rejected Longueira’s statements, ruling out the persecution, since “the State Defense Council intervenes judicially in accordance with the attributions and the mandate granted by its Organic Law, in defense and representation of the interests of the State. “.
This Wednesday the lawyer Carlos Gajardo, one of the former prosecutors who carried out the SQM case, the largest corruption scandal of political silver in the country, also reacted.
“Probably with his accusation what he does is divert attention from the fact that the State Defense Council is a collegiate body, and that its decisions are taken collegially, and when the Council decided to sue in this case, the president was Juan Ignacio Piña, a prominent lawyer who was the former minister of Sebastián Piñera, “said the lawyer in Radio Cooperative.
“Currently the president of the Council is Juan Antonio Peribonio, also a prominent lawyer and former mayor of Sebastián Piñera’s government. Therefore, this accusation of political persecution could not be further from reality,” he added.
Longueira is awaiting the oral trial for the crime of bribery in the framework of the SQM case. It should be remembered that he is dismissed from the edge of tax crimes, only due to the lack of a complaint from the Internal Revenue Service (SII) that did not exercise criminal action against him.
It should be remembered that the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that between 2007 and 2013 Longueira received a monthly payment from SQM, which did not come to him as a natural person, but to two foundations that he had created and that he presided over: the Web Foundation and Chile Justo, through the which received installments of 5 million liquid pesos between November 2007 and April 2013, which in total exceeds $ 700 million.
The “omissions” of Longueira
Regarding the SQM case in question, Gajardo recalled that “within the accusations that have been made, precisely the most serious were made against Pablo Wagner – convicted of corruption in the Penta case -, Jaime Orpis – accused of bribery and fraud Treasury also in SQM– and Pablo Longueira “.
In the interview in Radio cooperative, where Longueira almost came to screams with a journalist from the panel, he claimed “he was innocent” until proven otherwise. Gajardo, in this sense, is in favor of his presumption of innocence, but warns that “the story told in this way is partially true”, since “what he omits, which is fundamental, and which is part of the imputation that has made him so much The prosecutor’s office, like the State Defense Council, is sending this email to Mr. (Cristian) Larroulet without indicating that it is a SQM proposal, but rather passing it off as his own proposal. “
“It is also omitted that in parallel there are many people who were giving false ballots to SQM,” added Gajardo, such as the former senator’s secretary, Carmen Valdivielso, who “asked from the Longueira post office that they be paid, and that seems to me that deserves a good explanation. What interest did Mr. Longueira have in having ideologically false ballots paid to SQM and why was his secretary using his mail to make this claim for collection? “
“That crime, and contrary to what Mr. Longueira says, having been excessively persecuted for this cause, could not be carried out because the Internal Revenue Service never sued against him, despite the millionaire fraud that existed for that reason. respect, “he closed.
Moreover, in relation to the delay in the SQM oral trial, Gajardo is blunt: “This process has been extended too much precisely because of the pressure that has come from the political world. In this case there was a lot of truth but little justice ”.
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