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The former Minister of Health’s lawyer Jaime Mañalich, Gabriel Zaliasnik, downplayed the Supreme Court ruling that this Thursday declared inadmissible a request made by the portfolio currently headed by Enrique Paris that it sought to annul the decision of the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago to deliver the emails in the framework of the investigation into the figures and deaths related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
On October 15, the highest court had admitted the partial delivery of emails to the Prosecutor’s Office, however, the Minsal presented an order not to innovate.
Today, the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court determined that “this Court having ruled on the controversy provided for in Article 209 of the Criminal Procedure Code, there is no place for inadmissible. To the order not to innovate requested in the first other, yes, be to the merit of what was resolved “.
“I prefer not to comment, because it is a controversy between the Ministry of Health and the Public Ministry of which we are not part, but in no case does it seem dramatic to me “, reacted the defender of Mañalich, consulted by Cooperative.
He argued that “what the Supreme Court decides, ultimately, is that it is up to Minister Paris to define the emails that are linked to the investigation and that do not affect, in addition, national security, that it is precisely what the Supreme Court and the Guarantee Court had already decided. “
“It would have been desirable for the Public Ministry to provide descriptors that would facilitate the selection of emails, but since it didn’t happen, I think the Ministry of Health must make the corresponding decisions “Zaliasnik stated.
The inquiry against Mañalich, the President Sebastián Piñera and the current undersecretaries of the portfolio, Paula Daza Y Arturo Zuniga, was opened after Senator Alejandro Navarro (PRO) and the Chilean Human Rights Commission (Cchdh) filed a complaint before the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago.
In parallel, the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue (PC), also filed a complaint with the Third Guarantee Court of Santiago. The lawyer representing the communal chief, Ramón Sepúlveda, assessed the decision of the highest court, considering that Minsal’s request “had absolutely no legal basis”, and that both the defense and the government authorities themselves “have hindered this investigation.”
