“The report that @latercera brings about @DanielJadue is devastating. I think that the Prosecutor’s Office should speed up the investigation, Jadue should not be a candidate for Mayor, less for President. Jadue should be in prison. ” The tweet from former presidential candidate José Antonio Kast summarizes how the right decided to go all out against the mayor of Recoleta after the new revelations of the Luminarias Led case.
Third Today reveals a telephone interception that accounts for a scheme of illegal contributions, between the manager of Itelecom, León Marcelo Lefort Hernández – who today is serving preventive detention for the corruption case – with the lawyer Ramón Sepúlveda Castillo, legal advisor to the mayor of Recoleta.
In the conversation, they allude to transfers obtained through tickets of false fees paid to the mayor’s lawyer by the company. The company is in the focus of investigation by the Public Ministry for public lighting tenders in 22 municipalities, including Recoleta, where it was awarded a millionaire contract for more than $ 10 billion.
The controversial firm also made a donation of $ 50 million to the municipality for the Womad festival, but the main focus of the Prosecutor’s Office – points out Third– They are the “repeated payments by Itelecom to the lawyer Ramón Sepúlveda, and the suspicion that these -in fact- were destined for Jadue and were triangulated.”
With this background, the Prosecutor’s Office requested to raise the secrecy of the bank accounts of the mayor of Recoleta and has as accused of bribery and disclosure of secret Daniel Jadue and his lawyer Ramón Sepúlveda.
The latter published a statement on Twitter stating that “it would never cross my mind to offer money to Daniel Jadue, since I know his probity and transparency. Moreover, I have never acted that way in my professional life, so I am willing to collaborate in whatever way is necessary (…) I hope that everything is clarified and it is not used politically ”.
Right talks about a “devastating audio”
The new revelations are added to the raid carried out on Thursday by the Anti-Corruption Brigade of the PDI in the Municipality of Recoleta and the Cultural Corporation of the commune.
With these data, the UDI deputy Juan Antonio ColomaHe said that “it is urgent to clarify everything, especially if Daniel Jadue intends to be a presidential candidate.”
On Twitter, meanwhile, other figures in the sector, such as the lawyer Gabriel Zaliasnik, stated that “Golborne in 2013 resigned to presidential candidacy only x report of his companies abroad. Jadue appears in a report by @latercera involved in serious corruption crimes and with devastating audio. Here we will see if the media and politicians apply the same bar ”.
Zaliasnik was a lawyer for former ministers Jaime Mañalich and Víctor Pérez in the constitutional accusations they had to face in Congress, he belongs to the Jewish Community and has had a series of confrontations with Mayor Jadue, a Palestinian family, regarding the sayings of the aedile on Israel.
He also celebrated the report Christian Mirror, Cristián Labbé’s former right hand in Providencia, and who has had a long dispute with Mayor Jadue regarding the Desarrollo Harmonico Bellavista building. “Jadue of soccer is equal to Jadue of. …………….. complete the sentence !!! ”, he said ironic on Twitter.
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