The silence of the right in the face of the trafficking of “secrets” from Hermosilla

The revelations about the leaks of information by the former director general of the Investigative Police (PDI), Sergio Muñoz, to the controversial lawyer Luis Hermosilla, instead of causing noise, have generated silence in the opposition, despite the clear links he established the Prosecutor’s Office in the traffic of confidential information between the two and which, in addition, had as one of the final recipients the former Minister of the Interior of Sebastián Piñera, Andrés Chadwick. On the right they have not wanted to look even closely at the aforementioned link, since the scope of the issue has not yet been dimensioned. The Prosecutor’s Office has in its possession more than 700 thousand pages with Hermosilla’s conversations, many of which are with Chadwick. And outside of all that there is a municipal agreement in development that prevents friendly fires.

Among the cases that were widely exposed in Muñoz’s formalization hearing is the leak of proceedings from the Prosecutor’s Office for the sale and purchase of the Dominga mining company – which had the then President Sebastián Piñera as a defendant – and also in the Enjoy case – in the one in which the now deceased former president was being investigated for his eventual intervention to benefit the casino.

Other leaks also linked to the ruling party at that time, for example, about the corruption investigation against the former mayor of Vitacura Raúl Torrealba and the one involving the former mayor of the Metropolitan Region and former mayor of Lo Barnechea, Felipe Guevara, due to incompatible negotiations in the awarding a project in the commune of La Granja to his brother Matías Guevara.

From Chile Vamos, the political home of Chadwick and Piñerismo, no categorical response has been found on this issue. When asking among the coalition parties, no response was obtained. Various sources give different reasons why the community leaders do not refer to this news that links one of the figures closest to former President Piñera.

Some sources close to Chile Vamos comment that the scope of the case is still not clear, so more information is expected to be able to gauge what is being faced and, in addition, they believe that Chadwick’s link with said case is still tangential.

Others, within the coalition, comment that there is an awareness that important negotiations are being processed ahead of the October elections, so they want to treat the issue with caution so as not to tear down what has been built so far.

Voices from Renovación Nacional distance themselves and warn that their link with Chadwick is not very close, but that it is the UDI that would be more complicated by the reappearance of the former minister in a controversy like this.

However, officials close to Piñerism and former President Piñera rule out that there is an electoral strategy behind it and that there is any order to remain silent. What they do admit is that the case has been discussed, it has generated surprise and expectation, since it is not yet known how far it can go and who it can involve across the political spectrum. At the end of the day – they emphasize – there are 700 thousand pages of chats, which could involve people from across the political spectrum. After all – they mention – Hermosilla was also the lawyer of President Boric’s chief advisor, Miguel Crispi.

These same sources assure that the contingency has also taken over the concern, such as, for example, the election of the president of the Senate and the offensive made by the Government Spokesperson Minister, Camila Vallejo, when alluding that there could be a “network of corruption.”

Now, there are parliamentarians from the aforementioned parties who have testified on the issue. One of the few who has addressed the issue directly is deputy Henry Leal (UDI). In conversation with The counteron the program Al Pan Pan with Mirna Schindler, testified about the leak that would implicate Chadwick and the Dominga case and described the incident as serious, given that “The chief of police is there to protect Chileans and any information related to a criminal investigation should not be delivered to political power.”regardless of the Government that is in power.”

From RN, deputy Andrés Celis was one of the opposition representatives who lent his signature to create an Investigative Commission on the case. The parliamentarian says not to get lost and adds that a clarification must be made about the former minister: “He cannot be cited because he is not a public official. What’s more, this Congress dismissed him as Minister of the Interior and suspended him from exercising any public function for five years.”

Celis says that he could be invited, but “I don’t see in what capacity he could do it,” he points out. He even invited that if any particular deputy “has any type of basis or precedent that former Minister Chadwick has committed a crime, that he be responsible and file criminal action before the Public Ministry.”

The space that Vallejo opened

Until Tuesday, the Government had capitalized on the Sergio Muñoz case, given that Hermosilla – one of the main people involved – had close ties to the right.

Minister Camila Vallejo, at around 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, made a statement in which she declared that, after this case was revealed, “Indications of a possible collar and tie corruption network have been revealed, a network that could possibly have been organized to hinder investigative work in different cases associated with corruption by the Prosecutor’s Office.”

Until that statement, the opposition had not made offensives regarding the issue. However, after the National Prosecutor, Ángel Valencia, questioned the origin of the information provided by the minister and invited her to provide background information, the opposition found a space for dispute in the controversy.

The president of the UDI, Javier Macaya, also took the opportunity to stop the offensive of the head of Segegob in his X account: “Beyond the caricature that neither a collar nor a tie is worn on the Second Floor, Minister Vallejo He plays with fire by taking the Hermosilla case to La Moneda. She seems to forget who the Second Floor’s chief advisor’s lawyer is. Let’s let the institutions work and not try to manipulate them for the benefit of a political interest. In the words of the National Prosecutor himself: ‘If he actually has information about the existence of a network, he should report it to the prosecutor handling the case.’”

The president of Evópoli and former Minister of Transportation of the second Piñera Government, Gloria Hutt – who was also defended in a case by Luis Hermosilla – said in Cooperative that the left “is transforming the criminal cases against Muñoz and Ricardo Yáñez, general director of the Carabineros, into an anti-Sebastián Piñera bill.” Hutt added that the ruling party “diverts attention from what is important: that we have a serious risk of weaknesses in the police.”