Luciano Inarejo Muñozchief of staff of the removed director of Large Taxpayers of the Internal Revenue Service Christian Soto, denounced that the Public Ministry did not respect its fundamental guarantees and deceived him by treating him as an accused, despite having summoned him as a witness in the audio case.
The defender Felipe Moraga requested the Fourth Guarantee Court of Santiago to summon a hearing since his client would have been a victim of «illegality» on the part of the Prosecutor’s Office, noting that Inarejo was summoned on November 21 to testify and, Although he did so as a witness, the Public Ministry conducted investigations against him that are similar to an accusedas revealed Third.
«Officials from the Carabineros OS7 appear at the work address of my client, telling him that he must go, accompanied by them, to the Las Condes Prosecutor’s Office to give a statement as a witness. He is driven in a Carabineros civilian vehicle together with the officials. «says the letter.
Furthermore, he adds that «once at the Condes Prosecutor’s Office, an extensive statement is taken from him in an alleged capacity as a witness, without reading of rights, without a lawyer and asked about his own and other people’s facts«.
Likewise, after being interrogated, he was asked to «voluntary surrender of your cellular device and also voluntarily agrees to lifting of banking secrecy. My client agrees to all these requests.»
Along these lines, the lawyer accused that the treatment given to Inarejo «is more like that of an accused than a witness, since investigative measures have been carried out that affect or They could violate your rights without notice to the deponent».
The jurist explained in the aforementioned medium that the aim is to «precisely determine the quality that a person has in a criminal process, it is too important, since it is very necessary that from the first acts of the procedure it is known clearly what they are. The rights and obligations that the person has, in this case, the legal situation of an accused, victim or witness, is very diverse, therefore, The Public Ministry, from the first action of the procedure, has to clarify it in order to avoid future annulments and defects. of the procedure».
«The purpose of this guarantee precaution is for the Public Ministry to clarify this situation and the procedural situation of the witness Luciano Inarejo, in his capacity as chief of staff of the Internal Revenue Service for Large Taxpayers, is fully established,» he added.
All of this is part of the leaked audio scandal involving lawyers Luis Hermosilla, Leonarda Villalobos and businessman Daniel Sauer, who are being investigated for alleged payments of bribes to officials of the SII and the Financial Market Commission (CMF).