During this day, the The Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago declared admissible the complaint of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) for influence peddling in the context of the case “Operation Surveyor”.
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The judicial action occurred after a CIPER report leaked conversations in which suggest alleged irregular procedures carried out within the framework of appointment of Supreme Court ministers.
This complaint has had a extensive criticism from the world of politics, mainly from opposition deputieswho have assured that the organization’s advisors do not have active legitimacy to file this complaint.
The truth is This judicial action is filed against those who are responsible for the crime of influence peddling.
Influence peddling
According to the CIPER report, Judge Juan Poblete, Known for authorizing wiretaps illegal actions of the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE) against journalists and soldiers who denounce corruption would have requested the former Minister of Government, Mario Desbordes, support the candidacy of Maria Teresa Letelier as a minister of the Supreme Court.
For his part, the current candidate for mayor of Santiago maintained that “here there is nothing irreproachable, nothing illegal, nothing illicit. That the president of the Court of Appeals of Copiapó, who at that time was Minister Poblete, request certain help for a minister who is already appointed by the Supreme Court in a quina, who is already appointed by the government to the Senate, who is “Help with the senators, it’s completely normal.”
“For my part, there was not and has never been an intervention in the Judiciary. (…) there has also been no intervention in the Executive. And what Mr. Poblete is asking for is something that has nothing out of this world. There has been no lobby here, there has been nothing hidden, there has been nothing strange”, he asserted.
