This Sunday the minister of the Supreme Court, Angela Vivancoreferred to the report of Ciper, in which it is revealed that his partner, Gonzalo Miguelesoffered a doctorate and a position to the prosecutor Carlos Palma in exchange for him supporting a candidate during the nominations for National Prosecutor.
This revelation occurs within the framework of the investigation into the “Audios case”, in which a review of the chats from lawyer Luis Hermosilla. Precisely in one of the talks, prosecutor Palma sent him a screenshot showing the controversial offer.
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Regarding this, through a statement, Minister Ángelo Vivanco expressed her discomfort with the recent publication, where although she stated that she values investigative journalism, He described the investigation as unserious.
“I appreciate and value the activity of the media and investigative journalism (…) A different thing is that, under the appearance of a serious investigation, reports full of statements, prejudices, intentions and even errors are published. “that seek to affect a member of the judiciary by discrediting and attacking members of his family who have nothing to do with his duties,” he began by saying.
“It is not possible that just because a person is the brother, son, partner or spouse of a magistrate, a blanket of doubts and accusations spread over this to enjoy work or to be able to perform professionally because there are dark maneuvers that make it possible,” he added.
Along these lines, the authority of the Supreme Court added that “Nor is it possible for a specific medium to be substituted for functions that belong to constitutional bodies.determining when and how to leak real or false messages, added to their own interpretations about them, even more so when they belong to ongoing formal investigations or are presented as such,” he criticized.
Meanwhile, Ángelo Vivanco assured that will communicate with the national prosecutor, Ángel Valencia, to express their concern about the “unfortunate participation of a prosecutor from the Public Ministry in this report.” “It, without prejudice to the legal actions that those directly referred to in the messages delivered by the aforementioned Prosecutor, in which I did not participate in any way, legitimately decide to impeach,” he stated.
“I regret these types of situations, which affect the justice system as a whole and increase public mistrust, without any contribution to improve it,” concluded the Supreme Court minister.
