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He Jaime Mañalich’s lawyer denied that new details were known in the press on the investigation carried out by the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office against the former Minister of Health and other authorities for the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, and called on the body to find out who “leaked” the background.
Specifically, within the framework of the investigation on the handling of numbers and deaths from Covid-19, Six officials from the Department of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health agreed in their statement to the Prosecutor’s Office that the data related to the pandemic was accommodated at the Ministry’s convenience, during Mañalich’s administration, and that they were adjusting the cut-off time of the reports at the request of their superiors.
“I do not see any criminal connotation to what is indicated there,” he reacted Gabriel Zalisnik, defender of Mañalich, consulted by Cooperative.
He argued that “talking about a cut-off time is like being told that this answer is not enough to enter the Cooperativa radio newspaper newscast and they will have to carry it on the midnight or morning newscast; as long as it is not lost this note, no problem. “
“Here there was never manipulation, data hiding, and I think it is already evident. Even in that leak, not even the word manipulation is concerned, “said the lawyer.
In this context, he attacked the Prosecutor’s Office: “I hope that the Public Ministry, for once in its history, finds the person responsible for a leak that we are so used to.”
However, the statements of Epidemiology officials supported those of Andrea Albagli, a former official of the same department, who previously stated – on September 30 – that superiors “asked to manipulate the database.”
