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This Monday, October 5, the oral trial preparation hearing will be held in the framework of the SQM case, which together with PENTA became the two most emblematic scandals since the return to democracy, regarding misuse of the political silvers in campaign and that has crossed the national political rainbow from side to side.
One of those involved is the former president of the UDI, Pablo Longueira, charged with bribery and consummated tax crimes and who, in recent times, is the one that has raised the most dust, framing this, in his attempt to return to be part of the first political line with a view to the constituent process.
In the middle of a series of interviews that he gave to different media, the former colonel, in a threatening tone, pointed directly at the person of the National Prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, whom he accused, not only of not having moral authority. In addition, he raised the option of revealing information that no one else would have dared to deliver. “I know the meetings he had and what he negotiated and I am going to say it in the oral trial,” said Longueira, questioning “how can a man be a prosecutor who to get there freed all the parliamentarians and elected some? Can someone be in that position? I do not recognize it as moral authority, “he said.
Although the aforementioned at the beginning of September had responded by pointing out that Longueira “lies in an unacceptable way”, in his interview with El Mercurio this Sunday, he raised the tone of the discussion and went to the bottom of the matter.
In this way, Abbott took charge of a particular accusation and that refers to the impartiality that the Prosecutor’s Office would have with other defendants, depending on the sector they represent. Regarding the case of former minister Jorge Insunza, who was not finally formalized, Longueira had said that he did not understand the difference in treatment since “he was booting the mining companies in Chile.”
In this sense, the highest authority of the persecuting entity did not keep anything and said that “his case is not at all comparable to that of former minister Insunza”, arguing that “in whose investigation the East Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that he did provide effective advice to Antofagasta Minerals. The analysis of his current account did not show irregularities, not even as a deputy in the Mining commission, where there were no behaviors tending to benefit the interests of the company ”.
But he did not stop there, and added that “different from former Senator Longueira, where the prosecution confirms that through his foundations Web and Chile Justo he received large monthly payments from SQM, being a member of parliament, and that he had permanent contact with the general manager of that company while the Royalty law was processed, favorable to the interests of SQM, a benefit that later materialized in a contract that he signed as minister ”. In addition, he explained that “the payments that a public official receives to favor a company is called bribery and that is why Mr. Longueira is accused.”
Finally, Jorge Abbott ruled that “the tax crimes could not be prosecuted criminally, because the SII did not file any action against them.”
In the case that begins its stage of preparation for oral proceedings, and where it is expected to last no less than one year, the former manager of the non-metallic mining company Patricio Contesse and the former presidential candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami are also involved. among others.
Weeks ago, the attorneys representing the three aforementioned implicated parties had asked the Public Prosecutor to separate the trials, a situation that was denied.
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