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The parliamentarians of Chile, by regulation, have prohibition of hiring against the appropriations given by Congress -extra public funds to allowances- to people who are lobbyists and / or interest managers, a situation that, according to an investigation by Regions Cooperative, the senator and president of the UDI, Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe, violates by keeping the lobbyist since 2017 Olga Osses Klein, recognized in the Biobío Region as its “chief of staff.”
On June 4, 2018, in Resolution No. 4 of 2018, the Senate agreed to regulate the payment of parliamentary appropriations. In point 10 of this, it is expressly recruitment of lobbyists prohibited, interest managers or candidates for a popularly elected office with silver from the allocations.
Olga Osses Klein is enrolled in the National Registry of Lobbyists, of those who access meetings with public authorities on behalf of companies or individuals.
There, apart from stating that he lobbies for JVR, among others, highlights his active participation as a representative of the Sponsoring Entity (EP – by Egis) Bioconstruye Spa.
Prior a visa from the Ministry of Housing, said company fulfills the administrative function of link the housing committees with the Serviu in all the processing that involves carrying out a social project, until the approval and construction.
Bioconstruye was born in 2009 as an individual limited liability company, owned by Olga Osses’s sister, María Osses, but On March 28, 2018, by public deed, it became the exclusive property of Daniel Gallardo, spouse of the lobbyist.
Cabo Aroca de Hualpén Committee Project
In 2015, Bioconstruye became a sponsor of the Cabo Aroca 1 Housing Committee of Hualpén, which brings together 140 families of close friends who 11 years ago sought to unblock instances in the Ministry of Housing to access the purchase of land.
After the company he represents -Bioconstruye Spa- reached an agreement with the Committee, in his lobbyist annotations between 2017 and 2018 registers three meetings on issues related to the Cabo Aroca project with Housing authorities.
May 25, 2017:
September 27, 2018
And on October 12, 2018.
In these meetings, according to the lobby registry, issues related to land expropriation were addressed.
However, it is not until the April 29, 2019, in a meeting with the then Minister of Housing, Christian Monckeberg -Current Minister Secretary General of the Presidency- in which Olga Osses declares to attend on behalf of Bioconstruye Spa and Senator Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe, that good news is beginning to be known for the Cabo Aroca committee.
Consulted the Minvu Biobío, through a minute it was answered that the project was renamed “CNT Housing Complex Our Lady of the Sacred Heart”, consisting of seven five-story buildings, with a total of 140 apartments, of which 70 apartments are 57.46 square meters and 70 apartments are 57.28 square meters, plus central green area and equipment.
The land, located in a privileged place in Hualpén, in front of the Sagrados Corazones School, became the property of the Serviu and “has a Letter of Commitment for the Development of the Project, as indicated by Exempt Resolution No. 3430 dated December 12, 2019 of Serviu Región del Biobío “.
Likewise, “has a Building Permit No. 024 dated 08/06/2019 and Lottery Permit No. 026 dated 08/06/2019 “.
Hualpén in 30 years had not managed to build a social housing project; not even ENAP could do it to achieve the delayed relocation of its neighbors. This is the first to which a subsidy of 181,251 UF was awarded, that is, 5,200 million pesos for 140 families.
Family business
The spirit of the regulation that regulates parliamentary appropriations puts certain prohibitions, such as that congressmen hire lobbyists, precisely to avoid this type of situation.
The approval of the subsidy for 5,200 million pesos implies the payment of about 85 million pesos to the company owned by the lobbyist’s husband. This, according to the interpretation table of the Exempt Resolution 1875 of 2015 of the Ministry of Housing that regulates the payment for the provision of services to the SOEs that process housing projects. Being 140 families, the figures by tranches lead to the payment of 2,922 UF.
In fact, the project in question had the installation of the first stone last June, which was attended by, among others, the current Minister of Housing, Felipe Ward, and Senator Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, both militants of the UDI.
JVR version
Consulted the senator Jacqueline van Rysselberghe Regarding this situation, through a statement he replied:
“In relation to the information provided by the research area of Radio Cooperativa and that indicates the incompatibility of one of my collaborators to be hired by the Senate, I want to point out that: Olga Osses is a social workerI’ve known her for 20 years in which has worked with me, uninterruptedly for short periods, in different positions and functions “.
“His experience in housing issues, a sector in which he has also worked in a particular way in the private exercise of his profession, especially in the stages in which he did not collaborate with me “.
“Regarding the contract that you hold as support staff for my parliamentary work, I will make all the background available to the Senate for them to determine whether or not the contract is appropriate, “he closes.
In Senator Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe’s Parliamentary Allowance Pay Analysis, Olga Osses has been hired as a consultant since August 2017 continuously until September 2019.
Then it was rehired in February 2020, effective to date with an indefinite contract.
In all the time worked in both periods, JVR declares that it has paid a total of 59 million 593 thousand 141 pesos.
