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In the framework of the Public Ministry’s investigation into the deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile, the defense of the former Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, the target of the complaint along with President Sebastián Piñera and the undersecretaries Paula Daza and Arturo Zúñiga, He appealed to the Supreme Court for the Public Ministry to summon him to testify. The idea, they say, is that the North Central Prosecutor’s Office can “request necessary and pertinent information for the investigation of certain facts.”
Attorney Gabriel Zaliasnik filed a brief with the Supreme Court to request such diligence.
“I have come to request SSE to have the following documents accompanied, which account for the request made to the Public Ministry, in order for my client to be summoned to give a statement in the investigation in which these cars affect, opportunity in the that the Public Ministry may request necessary and pertinent information for the investigation of certain facts, “maintains the request of Mañalich’s defense that, like that of President Piñera and the current head of the Health portfolio Enrique Paris, opposes that the Prosecutor’s Office access all emails from the authorities from February to date.
The brief also maintains that “the above request is made in view of the fact that, to date, Mr. Jaime Mañalich has not been summoned to give a statement, nor has he been required to provide any pertinent information to clarify the facts. investigated, determine their participation, or prove their innocence, as provided in Article 1 of Law No. 19,640 “.
It is worth mentioning that the Prosecutor’s Office replied to the lawyers of Piñera and Mañalich (and Minister Paris) for refusing to deliver the emails. The Public Ministry warned them, a few days ago, that accepting their position would be a “dismal precedent.”
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