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Jaime Mañalich’s lawyer, Gabriel Zaliasnik, accused a former official of the Ministry of Health (Minsal), Andrea Albagli, of “false testimony” with an “ideological motive”, after the former head of Non-Communicable Diseases of the portfolio denounced before the Prosecutor’s Office that during the administration of the former Minister of Health, he was asked to manipulate the database on COVID-19 infections.
In addition, the professional indicated in conversation with The second who are working on a complaint against the former Minsal official, after her statements to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Albagli delivered his version to the Public Ministry on September 30, within the framework of the investigation into the complaint filed by the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue, against Mañalich, President Sebastián Piñera and other government authorities for their possible responsibility in the deaths from covid-19 that occurred in their commune at the beginning of the pandemic.
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The statement before the Prosecutor’s Office of the former official, who resigned from the Minsal in mid-September, was released this morning by Ciper and La Tercera. In this, Albagli accuses that one day in April, when she was one of those in charge of preparing the epidemiological reports, she was asked to manipulate the database so that the figure would match the one that Mañalich made known to the press in his daily report .
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This afternoon in the newspaper The second, Gabriel Zaliasnik pointed out that “(Albagli’s) claims are completely false. It is very dangerous to use the Public Ministry to plant false evidence and testimonies. In my capacity as lawyer for former Minister Mañalich, I have a duty to persecute him. We will exercise the corresponding criminal actions. We will not tolerate false testimony or obstruction of the investigation. “
Zaliasnik pointed to Albagli’s political militancy: “It’s a matter of looking at their social networks. He is close to or directly militant in the DR And what is more serious, in the same statement he indicates having shared his questioning of the Minsal’s strategy with Thomas Mix, brother of deputy Claudia Mix (Communes Party), who promoted the constitutional accusation against Mañalich ”.
“His statement is not accidental. It is made to try to influence the constitutional accusation. That is dirty politics and, at the same time, it reveals that there are people who do not hesitate to damage the rule of law and use the Public Ministry and the courts with ideological motives, ”concluded Zaliasnik.
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It should be noted that another witness, the former head of Epidemiology and current head of Minsal Health Planning, Joanna Acevedo, told the Prosecutor’s Office that the former minister created a “parallel system” of covid cases, under the responsibility of his chief of staff, Itziar Lianzasoro. “So she (Linazasoro) decided to set up a parallel system to carry public information, which was to call the seremis to inform her of the cases,” he said.
The Prosecutor’s Office is precisely requesting emails from Lianzasoro and Mañalich, which the Government has refused to deliver, so the prosecutor Xavier Armendariz appealed to the Supreme Court to obtain them.
