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Lawyer Carlos Gajardo, one of the former prosecutors who carried out the SQM case, ruled out that bribery charges that the former UDI leader is charged with in the case Pablo Longueira have been a means of political persecution against him.
The former persecutor punctually lashed out that Longueira point out the Doctor of Law María Inés Horvitz of the Council of Defense of the State (CDE) as responsible for its pending judicial conflict, calling it “communist” in Cooperative for the complaint that the organ made within the case.
“Probably with his accusation what he does is divert attention that the State Defense Council is a collegiate body, and that its decisions are made 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 “, recalled the lawyer in The Cooperative Diary.
In addition, Gajardo pointed out that “currently the president of the Council is Juan Antonio Peribonio, also a prominent lawyer and former mayor of the Government of Sebastián Piñera. Therefore, that accusation of political persecution could not be further from reality“.
The charges against Longueira
Regarding the relevance of bringing up the cause that the former senator has pending now that he returned to politics, Gajardo explained that “the concrete thing is that within the allegations that have been made, precisely the most serious they were made to Pablo Wagner -convicted of corruption in the Penta case-, to Jaime Orpis -a defendant of bribery and fraud to the Treasury also in SQM- and Pablo Longueira“.
However, yesterday he defended himself by pointing out that the crimes he is accused of date back to when in 2010 he “reached agreements” for reconstruction after the February earthquake with the opposition, with national mining companies and finally with Patrick Contesse, then representative of the non-metallic mining companies, who asked him make a correction in his area, a proposal that Longueira, as a member of parliament, referred the former Minister of the Segpres Cristián Larroulet.
Although the former prosecutor acknowledges that the presumption of innocence of the UDI should be respected as long as he is not convicted, he specified that “the story thus told is partially true”, since “what he omits, which is fundamental, and which is part of the accusation that has been done by both the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Defense Council, is that Send this email to Mr. Larroulet without indicating that it is a SQM proposal, if not that makes it pass a proposal of its own “.
“It is also omitted that in parallel there are many people who were giving fake ballots to SQM“added the lawyer, pointing out that the secretary of the former senator Carmen Valdivielso “asked from the Longueira post office that they be paid, and that seems to me that it deserves a good explanation. What interest did Mr. Longueira have in having ideologically false ballots paid to SQM and why was his secretary busy with his mail to make this claim for collection? “
“That crime, and contrary to what Mr. Longueira says of having been excessively persecuted for this cause, could not be carried out because the Internal Revenue Service never filed a complaint against him., despite the millionaire fraud that existed in this regard, “Gajardo remarked.
