The National Prosecutor, Angel Valenciaappointed the Regional Prosecutor of Valparaíso, Claudia Perivancich Hoyuelasto assume the direction of the investigation into events that could have the character of a crime in the so-called Surveyor Case.
This decision is made pursuant to article 19 of Constitutional Organic Law No. 19,640 of the Public Ministry.
“The seriousness and complexity of the facts investigated, in accordance with article 246 and others of the Penal Code, have led prosecutor Valencia to estimate that the direction of the investigation, the exercise of criminal action and the protection of victims and witnesses must be by prosecutor Claudia Perivancich,” reads a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office.
Operation Surveyor investigates possible crimes in influence peddling for votes and efforts in the Judiciary.
Favors in the Judiciary
According to a report by Ciper, in 2021, Juan Pobleteformer minister of the appeals courts of Santiago and Copiapó, was transferred to the Copiapó Court of Appeals after a summary for his delay in drafting rulings.
Poblete’s cell phone chats, which are now in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office, reveal that in April of that year the supreme Mario Carroza wrote to him, who sent him a message from magistrate Antonio Ulloa, in which he asked to favor a candidate for notary in Tierra Amarilla.
A year earlier, the then supreme Lamberto Cisternas had asked Poblete for his vote for “a friend who is applying to be a notary in Barnechea”.
Poblete left the Judiciary at the beginning of 2023. Months before, concerned about the economic situation he would face, he spoke with Carroza about a “offering” that the notary Francisco Leiva, brother of deputy Raúl Leiva (PS), made to him.
The chats reveal that notary Leiva leaked to Poblete parts of the removal notebook opened against him and informed him that “several supreme officials” wanted to help him.
Among the 1,571 chats that the Investigative Police (PDI) detected on one of Poblete’s cell phones, there are conversations where favors are exchanged between well-known figures in the judicial world.
