Unleashing the Lavín Factor: The Email That Revealed the True Power of Joaquín Lavín Jr in Maipú

The splendor of the investigating fraud to the Treasury for $31 billion and falsification of a public instrument conducted by the Public Ministry against Cathy Barriga, the former mayor of Maipú, they caught up with her husband, the deputy Joaquín Laví León (UDI), Who does the High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office of the East focus on?

In this way, the prosecutor Constanza Encina sent his functionaries in the senator’s office in the National Congress, in his district headquarters and in his home in Peñalolén, where his wife is under house arrest.

“The mayor’s office in the shadows” by Joaquín Lavín Jr

The investigations are part of an investigation that began last January, when the PDI carried out procedures related to Cathy Barriga and found a file called File attributes: author Joaquín Lavín Leónwhich included a list of people employed, dismissals and administrative sanctions against officials that would have been determined by the legislator.

“An e-mail has been seized in which Mr. Lavín sends it to Carlos Sverling (Lavin’s personal adviser), concerning honorable officers to be separated and a file accompanying him, a file with these officers, to’ w deleted. And we also have the information of who created this file and Joaquín Lavín appears here,” the Public Ministry reported at the time.

Joaquín Lavín Jr

Audio was added to this background revealed by The Counter which revealed the intention of Joaquín Lavín’s son in the commune: “We have to screw all the reds in the borough, “We are going to put everyone in our party’s contracts and plants.”

Along with this, the Prosecutor’s Office reported the testimony of Felipe Contreras, the former legal director of the municipality of Maipú, which detailed the efforts taken by Lavín Jr. himself to carry out his wife’s proposals.

“He called Joaquín Lavín himself and asked for explanations why the events that were considered in the control of the mayor could not be held,” identify the Public Administration.

The triple raid by the PDI and the Public Ministry

These predecessors yielded to a raid ordered by the Eastern High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office it was realized during this day, in an aspect that arose from the investigation against Cathy Barriga and that involved the eventual submission of false invoices to the National Congress for $17 millioncorrectly The Third.

In this regard, the prosecutor Constanza Encina declared “this is an investigation where the person accused in this case is the deputy, Mr. Joaquín Lavín León. This investigation, although it stems from an investigation we have into fraud against the Treasury and other forgery crimes in the context of the municipality of Maipú, “This is an investigation where only Mr Joaquín Lavín is accused at the moment.”

In view of this situation, the lawyer Cristóbal Bonacic, the representative of the deputy UDI and his wifeshe explained that the lawmaker had not given a statement and she made it clear that “the case is being conducted within the investigation process that the Prosecutor’s Office is conducting in a comprehensive manner regarding Cathy and Joaquín, so It seems good to us that everything that needs to be done is investigated, seized and reviewed, because there is no irregular or illegal action. Therefore, any investigation that takes place seems absolutely positive to us and a sign of transparency.”

Cathy Barriga

The UDI opens the door to possible sanctions against Lavín Jr

The presence of Public Ministry officials on the floor of the 12th Chamber of Deputieswhere Joaquín Lavín León’s office is located, extensive comments from the senators themselves.

Karol Carola, president of the House of Commons, he asserted that “We have ensured that we are fully available to collaborate with all elements “That they are available to us so that this investigation that is being conducted can have all the tools, the tools that the investigative process needs.”

For his part, from the UDI, its president Guillermo Ramírez left the door open for a sanction against Lavín Jr if his irregular operations are proven in the municipality of Maipú.

“If the deputy Joaquín Lavín is free of any irregularities, we will protect him and welcome him; If there is some kind of irregularity here, depending on the seriousness of the matter, the UDI will take action. He could be asking to stop militancy, he could be expelling,” he said.

Given this, the above faced the microphones of the press and defended his innocence, although he acknowledged that he did not know the reasons why the Eastern Prosecutor’s Office was investigating him: “No crime has been committed here and we hope that it will be investigated quickly so that all this can be explained quickly as well.”