The chats of Luis Hermosilla They continue to reveal suspicious movements in the power circles: the powerful lawyer received payments of money in hand, hidden from the bank records, from a close collaborator of Sebastián Piñerawhen he had already left the coin.
According to a report of The Clinicthose secret transfers are mentioned in The chats that Hermosilla had with Andrés Sotomayorone of the advisors closest to Piñera in his second term. The collaborator today appears as accused in the framework of the Audio case for appearing in coordination for appointments in the Judiciary during that time.
The first chat that exposes these payments was recorded Just a week after Piñera delivered the Boric presidential band and when both had already ceased to be government advisors.
That March 18, 2022, Sotomayor wrote to Hermosilla: “Hello Lucho, how are you? I have the fees of April-Mayo-Junio”.
Then there was a similar exchange in June of the same year, for other fees. The dialogues realize that they coordinated for the delivery of money in their offices or through third parties, such as drivers.
Hermosilla was usually handled with bills. An official report indicates that since 2017 it deposited more than 188 million pesos in cash to its bank accounts. His secretaries also declared that It was common for you to receive envelopes with silver and keep them in a safe.
Investigate origin of payments to Hermosilla
Asked by the aforementioned medium, Sotomayor did not want to explain the payments.
Meanwhile, from Piñera’s environment they indicated that these money They would be for the judicial defense of Hermosilla to Andrés Chadwick and? Even payments left directly from the former president. However, none of those sources wanted to affirm it with a microphone on.
While investigating the origin of these monies and their reasons, researchers put their eye on the issues that at the same time coordinated Hermosilla and Sotomayorwhen the Buric government was already underway: they collected tweets from prosecutor Ximena Chong, monitored the president’s statements and made press efforts, for example about the actions of Izkia Siches, among other “works.”
