The executive director of América Transparente, Juan José Lyon, addressed in conversation with El Mostrador in La Clave the case of the former mayor of Vitacura, Raúl Torrealba, who is being judicially investigated for possible embezzlement of public funds, bribery, fraud to the treasury, money laundering and falsification of public documents.
Lyon explained the method Torrealba used to get an account with $2.3 billion and hundreds of cash deposits. Even wads of bills were found on the walls of his home in Lago Colico, La Araucanía region.
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“It’s quite a particular system. What worked in Vitacura was that it had different departments. Vita Sports, Vita Health, Vita Young. They were municipal departments – so it seemed – but the truth is that they were parallel, private institutions, because they had been constituted through functional community organizations, that is, through the legal figure of a neighborhood council, “said Lyon.
Along the same lines, the executive director of América Transparente explained that “what happened here is that Torrealba, during his administration, created a series of neighborhood meetings in quotes that he called Vita something, to which millionaire funds were transferred every year. During his tenure, $15 billion was transferred to them and from there they worked for health, young people.”
“If these had been normal departments of the municipality, they would have been subject to the Transparency Law. We could know who works, they should have bought through Chile Compras, but being a ‘neighborhood council’, they lacked transparency,” concluded Juan José Lyon.
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