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He National prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, defended the efforts of the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office so that the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, allows access to emails from his predecessor -Jaime Mañalich- and other officials in the framework of the criminal investigation for the alleged misinformation of numbers of deaths from Covid-19.
The request of the prosecutor Xavier Armendáriz has been denied by the head of the Minsal, for which he resorted to the Supreme Court, which today analyzes the situation and before which both parties have had to present reports supporting their position.
Abbott questioned that “the litigants in this case”, who are the defenses of Paris, President Sebastián Piñera and the undersecretaries Paula Daza and Arturo Zúñiga, objects of various complaints, are targeting the messenger, against the prosecutors, instead of providing background information. “.
At the same time, he criticized one of the main arguments that the current health minister has made, that the information requested by the Prosecutor’s Office can put national security at risk.
Unlike, “It is not seen where there may be an impact on national security with the background we have requested, which basically relate to emails that were exchanged between different authorities and officials. “
Likewise, he maintained that “prosecutors do not make arbitrary decisions, because the decisions we make later have to be taken to the courts of Justice.”
For his part, Minister Paris assured this Friday that his refusal is not a personal decision: “Unusual that every time they put that news they put Paris refuses and it is not, it is the legal team of the Ministry of Health. Secondly, We have said that we are going to deliver all the information that the Supreme Court demands of us“.
[Audio] Paris: It is not me who refuses to deliver the emails, it is the Ministry #CooperativeInHome https://t.co/gZhu47k1yF pic.twitter.com/3QwU1JXAD0
– Cooperativa (@Cooperativa) October 9, 2020
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