The Minister of Finance, Mario Marcelexpressed his «deep indignation» over the payment scheme to officials of the Internal Revenue Service (SII) and the Financial Market Commission (CMF) to obtain privileged information and favors discovered by Ciperand involving lawyer Luis Hermosilla.
During the vote on the 2024 Budget in the House of Representatives, he stated that «it seems to us to be of the utmost seriousness that there are lawyers, offices or company advisors that seek to obtain benefits for their clients by paying bribes«, given that the jurist hoped to help businessman Daniel Sauer in this way.
«I’m surprised that no one thinks it’s serious, and They only think what happens on the officials’ side seems serious.«, said the person responsible for the fiscal purse this Tuesday.
Along these lines, «we have arranged, together with the director of the Internal Revenue Service (Hernán Frigolett) and the president of the Financial Market Commission (Solange Berstein) that investigations into the case are carried out«internally.
As the Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office has already opened a ex officio criminal investigation Due to this background, Marcel warned that «The State Defense Council is waiting of the information generated by the Public Ministry to resolve a complaint about».
The division led by persecutor Lorena Parra opened the investigation «in exercise of the powers that the law confers on the Public Ministry to directly open an investigation without the need to wait for a complaint or a complaint,» added the national prosecutor, Angel Valencia.
The minister also took the opportunity to describe to the deputies the inspection and control actions carried out by the SII and the CMF about the companies that Hermosilla intended to protect.
SII WAS UNAWARE OF CORRUPTION CASE
The Internal Revenue Service issued a statement saying that «the situation exposed was unknown to the organizationso the immediate execution of a internal investigation to determine if there is evidence to support the complaint.»
«If found, the corresponding measures will be adopted as quickly as possible to pursue those responsible with all the tools provided by the current regulatory framework, and to adopt administrative measures to avoid this type of situation, which is not part of the values that we promote as an organization and that have characterized our management in its more than 120 years of history,» the organization added.
Finally, the SII assured that «we will collaborate with complete openness and willingness with all related institutions to determine possible legal responsibilities.»
POSSIBLE INVESTIGATIVE COMMISSION
Deputy Daniel Manouchehri (PS) announced that the Economy Commission -of which he is a member- agreed summon those in charge of the SII and the CMF «to be held accountable,» but also «we are studying an investigative commission to find out about it.»
«In addition, we want to see how the different members have acted, because this It’s the tip of the iceberg«warned the official.
In turn, the RN Jose Miguel Castro He noted that the representatives «will have to give answers regarding how some of their officials could be involved in this case.»
«It is extremely serious and therefore, it has to be clarified,» he concluded.