Gonzalo Migueles, partner of Minister Angela Vivanco, requested the national prosecutor, Ángel Valencia, that the Public Ministry not hand over the chats to the Ethics Commission of the Supreme Court, where he and the regional prosecutor of Aysén, Carlos Palma appear in the investigation against lawyer Luis Hermosilla. Migueles argues that the request “far exceeds its powers” of the commission and that reviewing them would be a “violation of fundamental rights”, since These are private conversations.
In an eight-page document, Migueles indicated that he cannot be linked to the commission. since he is not a member of the Judiciary and is therefore not subject to its regulations. According to him, the request represents “a clear violation of the regulations” and constitutes an abuse of the commission’s powers.
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Migueles stressed that the conversations were private and protected by constitutional guarantees. “Its arbitrary review and analysis by the commission, which acts outside its organic framework, represents a violation of the fundamental rights of my client,” he added.
Migueles’ lawyer, Jorge Villalobos, argued that “the legal system necessarily has certain limitations”highlighting that only the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the criminal courts have the power to carry out such investigations, La Tercera reports.
According to the letter, the request from the Ethics Commission “constitutes an unlawful act” and could be considered a crime, since it seeks to access secret information obtained in the context of a criminal proceeding.
The document urges prosecutor Valencia to deny the delivery of the records to the Ethics Commissionarguing that its review would be a “direct transgression” of regulations and constitutional rights.
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