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Within the framework of the Public Ministry’s investigation into the deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile, this Wednesday, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court reviewed the request made by the Central North regional prosecutor, Xavier Armendáriz, who requested access to the emails of authorities of the Ministry of Health.
This request was made after the current minister of the portfolio, Enrique Paris, opposed the diligence, which sought the registration and seizure of the emails and files of former minister Jaime Mañalich, his former chief of staff, Itziar Linazosoro and the undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza.
“Request a report, as a prior procedure, from the Minister of Health Enrique Paris Mancilla, so that within a period of three business days, account to this Court in detail of the reasons that support their opposition to the diligence of the Public Ministry , in accordance with the communications sent to the prosecutor’s office on September 8 and 10, that is, specify how the confidential information of patients and the protection of private life are affected and specify how the diligence in question puts at risk or affects national security. For this purpose, be officiated “, says the resolution of the highest court.
The ministers Carlos Kunsemuller, Haroldo Brito, Jorge Dahm and the member lawyer Ricardo Abuauad participated in the resolution.
Meanwhile, Minister Leopoldo Llanos presented a request that was rejected. Llanos “was of the opinion of requesting a report from the Public Ministry in order for it to account for whether the prior communication formalities established in article 209, paragraph 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure were complied with, to carry out the diligence,” he reported. the highest court.
It should be remembered that the investigation was opened from the complaint filed by the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue, for the alleged crimes of denial of assistance and quasi-felony of homicides by the victims of the pandemic in the commune, and that today it was extended to the crimes of reckless dissemination of pathogens and falsification of public documents.
The Public Ministry chose to appeal to the Supreme Court after Minister Paris objected to the diligence when staff from the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the PDI – despite having a court order – tried unsuccessfully to raid the premises and extract the e-mails from health authorities. The Minsal invoked as an argument the special reservation of said communications, although later the minister has indicated that he will collaborate with what justice determines.
Emails from the head of the Health Planning Division
To date, as reported Third, the only e-mails that the North Central Prosecutor’s Office has in its possession are those that Johanna Acevedo, head of the Health Planning Division of the Ministry of Health (Minsal), voluntarily delivered to the Public Ministry after testifying as a witness in the case.
There are 37 documents with institutional email chains between her and authorities from the portfolio that Enrique Paris leads today.
According to Third, the content of the emails that cover the period between March 25 and June 12 reveal the methodological problems with the figures, the poor communication with Jaime Mañalich’s cabinet, and how the Second Floor of La Moneda intervened to participate in the reports and advise on the figures.
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