It has been a day of news for the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue. Today, on his birthday, his precautionary measures were going to be reviewed, and he has been in preventive detention since June 3, 2024 for the Farmacias Populares case; accused of corruption crimes. However, the hearing where it was going to discuss whether to continue in the Captain Yaber annex did not occur, being suspended due to a request from the State Defense Council (CDE) that was not processed before the discussion began.
Now, there was another review that Mayor Jadue was able to carry out: that of his defense.
Since the company Best Quality filed a complaint against him in 2021 accusing the Chilean Association of Municipalities with Popular Pharmacies (Achifarp) of non-payment for products — giving rise to the case that now has him in preventive detention — Daniel Jadue has had the criminal lawyer Ramón Sepúlveda as his lawyer, with whom he has been working for years.
The deprivation of liberty of one of the strong men of the Communist Party generates deep concern in the store, with restless voices that for more than a week have been pressing to strengthen Jadue’s defense. In that line, according to what could be learned Interferencethe lawyer Juan Carlos Manríquez would already be considered part of the mayor’s team of criminal lawyers.
The jurist would have been contacted by the Brazilian lawyer and partner of the mayor himself, Anjuli Tostes, according to what was published The second in its edition this Friday, both of whom would join the communal chief’s defense team.
“On Monday we will have the new actions in the case defined, taking on a new team composed of Sabas Chahuán as advisor, Anjuli Tostés with an international perspective, Ramón Sepúlveda will continue in other functions within the same team, and I will continue in the litigation. and with the support of colleagues in the field of international justice, both from the Inter-American Court and the OAS,” commented Manríquez.
This Friday Manríquez went to the prison where Daniel Jadue is being held. “On Monday we will have the new actions in the case defined, taking on a new team composed of Sabas Chahuán as advisor, Anjuli Tostés with an international perspective, Ramón Sepúlveda will continue in other functions within the same team, and I will continue in the litigation. and with the support of colleagues in the field of international justice, both from the Inter-American Court and the OAS,” Manríquez commented to Interference.
According to people familiar with Manríquez’s career, he has already worked with lawyer Ramón Sepúlveda on other cases. Juan Carlos Manríquez is the lawyer for the former candidate for governor of Santiago, Karina Oliva, who was charged with subsidy fraud during her failed campaign, while Sepúlveda defended Martín Miranda, Oliva’s electoral administrator who was charged in the same case. A source adds that they also worked together to defend historian Leonardo León, who was accused by his daughter of sexual abuse, with Sepúlveda defending León and Manríquez arguing on several occasions in the case in favor of the same client.
Third He had already mentioned that an addition to the defense of the mayor of Recoleta was in the works. According to a note published this Thursday, Manríquez was the main card to strengthen Jadue’s defense, with numerous high-profile causes.
Manríquez has a recognized career in criminal matters. Currently, he defends multiple causes of national relevance. He defends the former director of Army Intelligence, Schafik Nazal, accused in the Operation Topographer case for having spied on journalist Mauricio Weibel, among others. He also assumed the representation of the former director of the PDI, Sergio Muñoz, who is in preventive detention accused of corruption after Ciper revealed that he leaked information about Sebastián Piñera’s confidential cases to lawyer Luis Hermosilla.
Previously, he was the lawyer of the former Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, General (R) Ricardo Martínez, in the context of the case MilicogateHe was also the defender of former deputy Marta Isasi (UDI), convicted of bribery in the Corpesca case.
He has been an advisor to Congress, trained prosecutors from the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Peru in complex litigation for the International Criminal Reform of that country, and also trained Argentina in economic and environmental crimes for the prosecutor’s office in charge of that area.
