SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Mar 19 /Prensa Latina/ The former Director General of the Chilean Investigative Police (PDI), Sergio Muñoz, will be charged today with divulging classified information to lawyer Luis Hermosillo, the main figure in the corruption scandal known as Caso Audios.
It erupted in November when a recording of a lawyer talking about irregular payments to officials of the Financial Services Authority and the Financial Market Commission to obtain confidential information was leaked to the digital website Cyprus.
The investigation into Hermosillo's cell phone yielded information about criminal acts directly involving the former PDI director.
In addition to the Audios case, Muñoz has provided the lawyer with reports on other sensitive trials, such as the purchase and sale of the mining company Dominga, in which former president Sebastián Piñera (2018-2022) was accused, according to the website.
The leaks have been occurring since June 2021 and most of them have involved Piñera or authorities close to him, including an investigation against the former president for his possible intervention in favour of the Enjoy casino.
Also the investigation against former Vitacura mayor Raúl Torrealba, accused of corruption and other illegal activities, and the investigation against former Lo Barnechea mayor Felipe Guevara for incompatible conduct in awarding a project to his brother Matías Guevara.
More than 500 messages between Muñoz and Hermosillo, collected by the prosecutor's office, show that the lawyer received the information before the police handled requests to the prosecutor's office.
Many of the reports concerned legal cases that could affect then-President Piñera and were passed on to his cousin and former Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick.
"Piñera had an entire network of private spies and state officials at his disposal to evade the arm of justice. The Domingo case is another example of how the former president used political power to take care of business," wrote Senator Daniel Núñez on his X network account.
Carabineros raided the home and office of the former PDI director on Friday on a warrant from the prosecutor's office, and the same day Muñoz handed in his resignation to President Gabriel Boric.
The case thus joins that of the current director general of the carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez, accused of violating humanitarian law during the social explosion in October 2019.
Yáñez will be arraigned on May 7.
oda/car/gnews.cz-RoZ_07
English 
Czech