In 2023, the Joyvio company presented two complaints against businessman Isidoro Quiroga Moreno, after the purchase of Australis by the Chinese consortium. Since January 15, Quiroga Moreno has been formalized for alleged crimes of unfair administration and fraud.
Last week, a new complaint was filed in the fourth guarantee court of Santiago by the “Australis Case.” This time the Quiroga family was the one that – through its lawyers Juan Domingo Acosta and Alex Van Weezel – entered a letter in which they accuse the current general manager of Australis and the Chinese representatives of the research company to the investigation.
Los querellados son Andrés Mauricio Lyon Labbé, Chen Shaoopeng, Yonggun Huang, Tang Yin, Zhou Qingtong y Wu Xuanli.
In the 99 -page document – that Radio Bío Bío had access – it is detailed how Joyvio’s executives would have submitted false statements, altered background, “even reaching Mutilar [una] Excel payroll “and finally, that” the complaints threatened and offered payments to possible witnesses to falsely declare in the investigation. ”
An executive report of the Lua Austral Spa consultant of January 26, 2019 is also mentioned, which was “prepared by the Technical Concessions Advisor of Joyvio in the Due Diligence process, whose existence was denied by Joyvio in the arbitration process”.
“Threats” by President Joyvio
Shaopeng Chen is the executive president of the Asian company Joyvio, he presented a statement for the Australis case in which – according to the letter – “it was allowed to threaten the State of Chile if their expectations were not met.”
“He emphasized that the Chinese authorities were ‘very angry’ and that he was instructed to take ‘all kinds of measures’, making them present that they are one of the largest importers of fresh fruit from Chile,” he describes.
And the exact statement adds as a note to the footer: “They were see angry, they said that we were cheated by isidoro and the seller and they not only cheated joyvio, but they would individually The Recruitment of Actions Against The Seller and the Ex-Controller to Figh for the justice. (They were very angry. They said that Isidoro and the seller had scammed us, and that they had not only cheated Joyvio, but also the Chinese government. They ordered us to take all possible measures and means, in particular the presentation of demands against the seller and the former controller to fight for justice. This is the information and instructions we receive from the government).
But he also referred directly to cherry purchases, a theme that is not related to Australis but “said that the case against our represented was crucial and important for his company but” also for bilateral economic relations between Chile and China. ”
The full statement says: “Joyvio Also is the single Largest Fresh Fruit Business Company in China and We Are The Single Larest who are importing fresh fruits from your country, single largest importer from Chile in terms of fresh fruits every winter season we import around 5 thousand containers of your cherries to China (…) Because This is so crucial and Important to My Company and Also to Bilateral Economical Relationships Between China and Chile, and the Chinesee Government is, Yo Know, Paying Hage Attention in This Case ”. Of fresh fruits from Chile, each winter season we import around 5,000 containers of their cherries to China (…) because this is crucial and important for my company and also for bilateral economic relations between China and Chile, and the Chinese government is, as you know, paying close attention to this case).
“False statements of the manager”
Another of the aforementioned points in the complaint are the alleged false statements of the current general manager of Australis, Andrés Lyon. According to the document “Mr. Lyon has been the main spokesman for Joyvio’s false charges and has submitted five statements throughout the process, although at the time of the facts investigated he served in a competitive company in Australis.”
A table is attached in which he realizes seven declarations of Lyon, which according to the complaint would be wrong. With each manager’s exhibition, it is accompanied by the antecedent that contradicts them and the previous knowledge that Lyon had of each information.
An example is that of the Costa case. “The Costa Costa is the same as two years before Sernapesca had warned overproduction and that the seller covered at the time of Due Diligence,” would be Lyon’s statement.
But in the brief it is indicated that “the resolution was sent in full copy to the lawyers of Joyvio and informed by at least seven different ways.” And also that “on November 8, 2022, Rubén Henríquez informed Andrés Lyon in writing that the case had been reported and the background, provided.”
Like this, six more cases are established.
Pressures, threats and payments
The statement presented to the Prosecutor’s Office by the former Legal Manager of Australis, Rubén Henríquez, is used to exemplify how, according to the complainants, Joyvio’s representatives have threatened people to testify in their favor.
The letter indicates that “in 2022 with the arrival of the complaint Andrés Lyon Labbé as the new general manager, Australis began to be required to attend different meeting instances with lawyers with lawyers with lawyers that represented the interests of Joyvio. All this, under the pretext that it was an ‘internal investigation’ of Australis”.
They add that “Mr. Henríquez points out that he was summoned to a meeting for November 7, 2022, at the offices of lawyer Gabriel Zaliasnik” and that he referred to how in “that instance the lawyers of Joyvio pointed to him that ‘they had to present judicial actions against all the executives of Australis, including him Mr. Henríquez, as long as he signed a collaboration agreement and testified in favor of Joyvio in different judicial instances in a way that was ‘pertinent’ and ‘useful’ to his interests. “
-An image of Henríquez’s statement is attached: “What they said, is that they could sign a collaboration agreement and that if my testimony was useful, they were not going to execute the convictions against me.”
Where he also adds that in another instance in a meeting with Andrés Lyon and Alberto Eguiguren – corporate enthardland that has coordinated the judicial strategy of Australis – they told him again that the lawyers had a history to criminally involve him and also offered him a “Golden bonus” in the collaboration.
“They made me go to the meeting and Alberto raises that the criminal lawyers had commented that in the background there were elements to attribute criminal participation (…) and that according to Zaliasnik there was a formula that implied a determined collaboration on me.”
The statement continues: “On the other hand Alberto also offers me a ‘Golden Bonus’ that in the case of arriving at an agreement soon with Quiroga or winning, would obtain an economic benefit for me, or that the result could have economic benefits for me.” And that “Andrés, at that meeting, promised to pay me my annual bonus for some milestone of the SMA process that we had to define.”
In the letter, it is also detailed that “to try to seal this proposal, Mr. Henríquez received a ‘collaboration agreement’, whose copy accompanied in the investigative folder.”
And a paragraph of this draft was included in the complaint. “They undertake not to execute an eventual conviction against the collaborator, provided that the information, documentation and cooperation delivered by Rubén Alejandro Henríquez is relevant and useful for the defense and obtaining of the claims of Australis Seafoods SA,” is indicated in the draft.
They add that the seventh clause of the agreement shows that “his proponents were aware of his illegal actions, since they expressly recorded that the document would be signed in a single copy, which would be held by Joyvio’s lawyers and, according to Mr. Henríquez’s statement ‘in a strong box or something like the style’”.
As Finally Henríquez did not want to sign the agreement, Joyvio “completed his threat and on March 18, 2025, through his Food Investment Spa company, he presented a new expansion of complaint for the crime of fraud, this time, directed against Mr. Rubén Henríquez,” it is indicated.
Threats and messages through emissaries
Despite how far they can be in the case, on November 22, 2023, as detailed in the complaint, Alfredo and Arie Misraji were presented. The first is uncle and the second brother of the former general manager of Australis, Ricardo Misraji, who died of cancer in January 2023.
In the letter it is indicated that both were contacted by Alberto Eguiguren to talk about Australis.
The first appointment took place on August 21, 2023 between Eguiguren and Alfredo Misraji. In his statement he points out that Eguiguren “pointed out that Joyvio and his representatives are willing to do anything with the information of Ricardo Misraji and his family. He even told me that they have followed Benjamín Quiroga in London and that they know all the movements of the Quiroga family.”
He added: “What Alberto told me is that, as he transmitted to me, they were forced to pay money to a group of Australis workers to declare them in favor of them in this trial.”
For his part, Arie Misraji, realizes – according to what was indicated in the complaint – that “he received similar intimidations, this time indirectly and through the lawyer José Miguel Sanhueza, partner of Mr. Alberto Eguiguren.” Who would have called Arie’s partner, Camilio Béjar.
In his statement he mentions: “Sanhueza tells him that the positionalist of the office, showing as if they were others, have a lot Ricardo and I who can harm us and that they can ventilate that information. ”
Statements
Radio Bío Bío approached the complainants to learn more details. They, through a statement, indicated that the complaint was filed on April 30 and that “the complaints of Joyvio and Australis promoted a criminal investigation based on criminal complaints filed knowing that the imputations were false.”
And that “the complaints, in order to make the processing of their complaints, resorted to additional and repeated acts of research to research, which include threats and economic offers to witnesses, in addition to the alteration and concealment of background relevant to research.”
Finally they added that “the acts of obstruction to the investigation are part of the studied judicial, communicational, diplomatic and personal extortion strategy deployed by Joyvio against Isidoro Quiroga and its surroundings.”
From the other side, the complaints also talked with the radio. They indicated that Mr. Isidoro Quiroga’s defense in one of his usual maneuvers, and Given the continuous judicial setbacks they have suffered, this action has presented in order to hinder the progress of the main investigation associated with the complaint for fraud And unfair administration that we have presented against him two years ago, for which and before the overwhelming background consisting of the investigation folder, the Public Ministry formalized Quiroga and his circle for these crimes. The actions of his defense of complaining against the representatives of Joyvio, ASF reveals the despair of his team before the prompt resolution of the judicial cases carried out by Joyvio and ASF ”.
