One was presented by deputy Luis Cuello (PC) once morest those responsible and in which it was also requested that deputy Jorge Alessandri (UDI) take a statement. The other was admitted by the lawyer Luis Mariano Rendón, who points once morest the prosecutor of La Araucanía.
This Saturday, two legal actions were filed for violation of secrecy in the context of the leak of the phone call from an adviser to former minister Jeanette Vega to the leader of the Arauco-Malleco Coordinator (CAM), Héctor Llaitul.
This morning the Deputy Luis Neck (PC) filed a criminal complaint once morest those found responsible in which, in addition, he asked the Araucanía Prosecutor’s Office to collect the testimony of deputy Jorge Alessandri Vergara (UDI) “in order to facilitate the information available to you”.
Regarding his request regarding Alessandri, Cuello indicated that the trade unionist has said publicly that “he handles information regarding the leak and, therefore, handles records on the commission of a crime, which is the violation of secrecy.
“This is why we have also asked the regional prosecutor to request the testimony of deputy Alessandri so that he tells everything he knows regarding the facts that are part of this leak that has all the characteristics of a political operation of Rejection,” he launched.
“It seems very serious to us that a reserved report from the PDI has been leaked which contains the transcript of an intercepted telephone call”, the legislator started in a statement to the media.
Luis Mariano Rendón and leak in the Héctor Llaitul case: “At most I have heard President Boric formulate ‘requests’ through the media for an investigation”
The other legal action was filed following 1:00 p.m. this day by the lawyer Luis Mariano Rendón once morest the regional prosecutor of La Araucanía, Roberto Garrido, and all public officials who are responsible..
“Two full days have passed since these leaks of private conversations were made public which are absolutely irrelevant from the point of view of the ongoing investigation,” the lawyer said in a statement.
“I have waited for the government to file the corresponding complaint and at most I have heard President Boric formulate ‘requests’ through the media for an investigation,” he criticized.
As Rendón did not know of any parliamentarian who took action on the matter, which did not happen on the part of the national prosecutor either, “that is why I, a simple citizen, am forced to start the criminal process once more so that these facts do not remain in impunity”, he assured.
“Although the facts that are the subject of the complaint affect the communications of a specific person, Mr. Llaitul, with whom I am not linked in any way and with whose public actions, for the rest, I do not feel any sympathy, they constitute at the same time a disastrous precedent of general scope”he whipped
“These leaks of criminally irrelevant private conversations leave the investigative technique of telephone interception absolutely questionable in the eyes of the public. These acts must be punished.”hill.
The controversy caused by the leak produced the first casualty in the cabinet of President Boric and Llaitul is currently serving preventive detention in the Bío Bío Prison in Concepción.
