This Tuesday, at 9:20 a.m., it began at the Santiago Justice Center the formalization against the former director general of the Investigative Police, Sergio Muñoz, for his involvement in the Hermosilla case. Muñoz is accused by the Public Ministry of repeated crimes of violation of secrecy, both in common crimes and in the money laundering case being pursued against his predecessor in the PDI, Héctor Espinosa.
Last Friday, Muñoz He presented his resignation as the highest authority of the PDI after his home and office at the police headquarters were raided at the request of the Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office.. This occurred after his name was verified in multiple conversations with Luis Hermosilla, accused of promoting payment to officials of the Internal Revenue Service (SII) and the Financial Market Commission (CMF) to benefit his client, Daniel Sauer.
Ayer, Muñoz decided to renounce his right to remain silent to voluntarily give statements and deliver his version of the facts of which he is accused, before the eastern prosecutor’s office.
“There are objective facts in this case”and “more than denying them, it is explaining them and setting a context for them,” said the defense lawyer, Juan Carlos Manríquez, before entering the Public Ministry.
At the formalization hearing, and after detailing the accusations, Prosecutor Francisco Lanas, of the Eastern Prosecutor’s Office, asked the court for preventive detention, which was later endorsed by the regional prosecutor Lorena Parra, who provided a series of details regarding the communications between Muñoz and Hermosilla not only in the case related to Espinosa, but also in the investigations about the former mayors Raúl Torrealba and Felipe Guevara In addition to the Enjoy case, the case regarding the Dominga mining company. Former president Sebastián Piñera was involved in both.