CPLT fines Undersecretary Galli for unfounded and repeatedly refusing to provide requested information

For failing to respond to 162 requests for information, the Council for Transparency fined the Undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli. The aforementioned official of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security said that he will reach the last consequences before “the disproportion” of the matter.
According to the body chaired by Gloria de la Fuente, the delivery of the requested information to the Undersecretariat of the Interior was repeatedly and unjustifiably denied, “within the deadlines and forms established in Law No. 20,285.” That is why the CPLT resolved, on November 22, 2021, to fine Undersecretary Galli 30% of his one-month salary.
In La Moneda, according to Emol, there is anger at the sanctions for delaying transparency responses during the social outbreak and the pandemic. From the Government they emphasize that “charges were formulated for only 162 answered after the deadline, which is 3% of the total entered.”
They say they received 4,629 requests for information between March 2020 and the same month in 2021. “In the context of pandemic and outbreak there was an increase in requirements, where the level of demand for the undersecretary increased significantly,” they add from Palacio.
Undersecretary Galli, for his part, will appeal to the CPLT’s measure and assured, according to the electronic media, that “it will reach the last consequences in the face of the disproportion of the situation.”
In addition to Galli, the CPLT accuses the head of the Legal Division, Cristián García Huidobro, and the head of the Aliens Department, Álvaro Bellolio, of delivering requested information after the deadline.
“The lack of response within the legal period established for this, implies an unfounded refusal in the response and in the timely delivery of the information in cases in which there is no constitutional or legal cause of reservation or secrecy,” the Council said.

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