The accusations of prosecutor Sergio Moya and the attempts to remove the Regional Prosecutor of O’Higgins, Emiliano Arias, from the Public Ministry, while leading three cases of high public connotation – the Caval case, the cover-up of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in cases of sexual abuse of clerics to minors and the corruption investigation against ministers of the Court of Appeals of Rancagua, in the opinion of various sources within the Public Ministry, they constitute one of the darkest moments of the Prosecutor’s Office.
In the framework of various cases that were opened in parallel to this scandal, a part of the evidence that was provided is related to “extractions” of WhatsApp messaging made to the phones of prosecutor Moya.
Within the conversations via WhatsApp, which occurred between the end of March and the third week of April 2019, Moya maintains frequent contacts with the Regional Prosecutor of Ñuble, Nayalet Mansilla – today a candidate for National Prosecutor – where he expresses his concerns that they would open a summary investigation for certain correspondences he had with Carabineros Intelligence personnel. in the context of the Huracán case.
Concerned about this situation, on March 22, 2019, Moya writes to Mansilla confirming that an investigation would be opened against him. “Hey, Don Jorge called me, he told me that Palma (Regional Prosecutor of Aysén and also candidate for National Prosecutor) sent him an official letter and q in merit of that he is going to make me a summary x hurricane.”
“May the weon get stuck with a lamb bone at today’s meal,” Moya writes to Mansilla. And he finishes: “Okay, a hug and a spit on Palma.”
Showing a closeness to the style of prosecutor Jorge Abbott, both persecutors continue talking and it is in this context that Moya, days before he decided to light the bonfire in the institution, by denouncing prosecutor Arias for different acts of corruption – which were later discarded by justice – is anticipating to Mansilla the steps he would take to unleash the scandal.
-“It takes me an hour to get an interview on El Mercurio, CNN and Mosciatti, and I can leave the shit,” he tells the Regional Prosecutor of Ñuble. And then he adds:
-“Palma maraco sent the office denouncing me on January 15 and shortly before he told me that I had nothing to worry about,” Moya confesses to Mansilla, after which he finishes: “Well, whatever I have to be no more, but if they want to sanction me it will cost them.”
Hours before prosecutor Moya gave the April 16, 2019, interview with Radio Bío Bío, where he launched all the accusations against Arias, the prosecutor was concerned that the scandal could affect Jorge Abbott. “All I tell you is to think about the good (…) of Don Jorge”.
Shortly after the allegations materialized in the media, Moya and Mansilla began to plan how they would have to do it to move forward with one of the emblematic cases that Prosecutor Arias was carrying: the investigation against the judges of the Court of Appeals of Rancagua.
From what emerges from the messages, at the time of Moya’s complaint to the media, it was already discussed that the case against the ministers of Rancagua would pass to the persecutor Nayalet Mansilla, and that all this was already also discussed with the then National Prosecutor, Jorge Abbott.
“How many people are we going to need for the investigation?” asks Mansilla to Moya. “You have to ask for support.”
“Wait no more when I name you,” Moya replies. “Now you will be: La Emiliana!”
“After this investigation I will be lucky if I stay in the prosecutor’s office,” replies the current candidate for National Prosecutor.
“Are you sorry?” asks Moya. “If you are sorry you can still say it.”
“Crazy Tai,” Mansilla replies. “He had to touch me no more.” “Nothing is random.”
“No,” Moya assures him. “We chose you with Don Jorge.” “For something it will be.”
“Nayalet, as I know Emiliano well, I suggest you have the offices ready to ask for the delivery of the cause, if you want someone to prepare it and I will check it,” he says.
“What do you mean by the trades?” the prosecutor asks.
-“To ask for the cause they barely notify you,” Moya replies.
“In any case, they haven’t told me anything else about the FN,” warns the persecutor. “Except for Don Jorge on Sunday.”
Mansilla’s offer
Just at the time of these talks, the process to elect the new Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor was being closed.not South. And according to Moya, Hector Barros would be the chosen one.
“Barros, it’s the man,” he tells Mansilla. “If he leaves, I’m going with him to create fac (High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office) of the south.”
To get Moya out of the eye of the storm, prosecutor Mansilla proposes another solution.
-“Come to Chillán no more,” the persecutor proposes.
And Moya asks, “But what about grade 4?”
The current aspiring National Prosecutor gives her peace of mind:
“I have an idea to bring you.” “With your causes we open high complexity here.” “And I bring you as a boss.” “The prosecutor of Quirihue smells like cold cuts.”
Finally, it was Héctor Barros who won the Southern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, and Abbott decided to refer the case to the Rancagua Court of Appeals.
Response of prosecutor Nayalet Mansilla
Consulted by El Mostrador, the aspirant to occupy the highest position of the Public Ministry assures that “in relation to the complaint of Sergio Moya against Emiliano Arias I had no knowledge of this or its tenor”
As for the cause that he maintains that he would be assigned, he indicates “that when I assumed as regional prosecutor in Ñuble there were inquiries related to an investigation led by Prosecutor Arias in this region and the national prosecutor has the power to appoint an exclusive regional prosecutor who carries all the edges, ultimately the investigation was assigned to another regional prosecutor.”
Regarding the content of the conversations with prosecutor Moya, the persecutor points out: “I do not remember the tenor of them and I cannot take care of what prosecutor Moya said.”
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