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The lawyer Samuel Donoso stated that the Senator RN Manuel José Ossandón is currently in a “complicated legal situation” product of “a very clever construction”, with overtones of “political persecution”.
Interviewed by Third, Donoso dismissed influence peddling investigations -which he described as “a smoke screen” from his complainant, his cousin, the Mayor of Pirque, Cristián Balmaceda– Y fraud to the Treasury, related to money transfers between him and his secretary, María Paz King.
“That is very easy to explain. Mrs. King is not a mere secretary, she has a role as administrator of the senator’s money. So much so that she is also the administrator of the RN Senators Committee, for which he does not charge, “said Donoso, who claimed to have commissioned an accounting expertise.
The lawyer also explained why the senator has money transfers from his brother Ignacio Ossandón: “The brother has helped him permanently financially, for his life let’s say, and the way he has done it is essentially by transferring the money to Mrs. King, who manages the senator’s money. “
“With these monies in her checking account, what she should do is pay the senator’s obligations and deposit from her account to the senator’s account when necessary. (…) María Paz King also manages the senator’s account, then, when it is necessary – for example, when a payment will be charged to the account – she transfers the money to pay the corresponding obligations, “he said.
“It has endured me for years, it has become my right and left hand. An example of loyalty, professionalism and commitment. María Paz King is much more than my secretary, she is part of my family”, wrote Ossandón, some time ago, on your Facebook account.
Silver return from a garden company
Donoso also referred to monthly payments, permanent over time, from a company that won a bid to maintain the Puente Alto gardens when Ossandón was mayor, and that maintains the agreement until today.
“The garden company is owned by people the senator has known for many years, who started very low, and who are known to him. (…) They are people who started from below and who asked the senator for help. The senator helped them financially and these silver that they return to him are the return of those monies. That is absolutely accredited: how are there money that the senator lends them and how they return those money, and we are also going to accredit that with the expert opinion, “he said.
The lawyer indicated that Ossandón helps many people and “the public salary that he has as a senator is not enough to pay all his living expenses, that is why (for example) he gets help from his brother. “
“He is a person who, indeed, helps many people financially; that has affected the flow (of money)From there come then these helps from his brother. Now, All of this has traceability in the checking account and in the charts, all this has documentary traceability. In the case of the owner of the garden company, it is a help that they do because they know each other, and because he wants to support them, they are people he has known for a long time, they are people of work and sacrifice, “he remarked.
“He advised the Municipality of Pirque”
Samuel Donoso insisted – as Ossandón himself has done – that he did not carry out any management before the Municipality of Pirque to benefit the company Cavilú, in which one of his sons participates.
“He is simply going to advise the people of the Municipality of Pirque, in terms of maintaining the agreement (..) because it is good, and they and time have ended up agreeing with him, because Last year, Mayor Balmaceda himself, who denounced these events, ended up asking the Municipality of Puente Alto to have the agreement againBecause only with the agreement, Pirque can obtain resources from the aggregates of that river, without the agreement he cannot, “he told Third.
“He says nothing about Cavilú. The rights to the concessionaire had already been acquired. Nothing that the senator says affects any decision that at that time could have been favorable to the interests of people related to him, his son (…) What Ossandón said (on May 4, 2018) was that he recommended that they reach a good agreement, he advises them, but does not ask for anything that has to do with Cavilú, “he said.
Complaint against Balmaceda
Samuel Donoso finally announced that Ossandón will sue the mayor of Pirque, who got him into this mess of explanations to weave, in his opinion, “a smokescreen” about his own irregularities.
“At that time when Mayor Balmaceda complained, there were two investigations of really serious facts for crimes of fraud to the Treasury: an investigation of a woman who had been paid salaries for a long time who was the mother of a councilor and who never worked in a municipal school. That was a contract signed by the mayor. In addition to that, there is another investigation into irregularities in the driving licenses. We are deeply struck by the fact that in these two investigations the mayor is not“, said.
“We believe that the complaint against the senator became a veritable smokescreen that in the end ends up hiding these two investigations of events that, in our opinion, are serious, and for which the responsibility of the mayor should be investigated. That is why we are going to sue for the crime of fraud to the Treasury“, ad.
Asked if this will not be interpreted “as revenge”, the defender replied that “here there are serious facts that are in the senator’s constituency, and it is reasonable for a public official like him to ask for an investigation.
“There are chats that if you read them today give the impression that they had been written thinking about a possible subsequent judicial process,” Donoso accused. (Photo: ATON)
Donoso closed by pointing out, regarding Ossandón, that “His complicated legal situation is a very clever construction“, based on” a way to build influence peddling where there is none “.
“There are WhatsApp that one can now perfectly read, and they were ready to be used later in a process. I’m not saying that (Balmaceda) manipulated, I’m saying that there are chats that if you read them today give the impression that they had been written thinking about a possible subsequent judicial process“, he claimed.
“Ossandón is an atypical character in his sector and there may be some political persecution in what is happening “, Held.
