The Christian Democracy (DC) – party chaired by Philip Delpin- filed a complaint against the former president of the community and ex-conventional, fuad chahinfor the crime of unfair administration.
In the complaint, the DC points out that Chahin – who presided over the store between May 28, 2018 and May 18, 2021 – entered into a series of contracts on real estate owned by the party, “that seriously compromise his assets.”
They also pointed out that the former leader of the phalanx “paid commissions outside the market value, violated the limitations of article 45 of the Constitutional Organic Law No. 18,603, allowed party assets to be taxed, without any authorization and violated the agreements of the instance in the execution of these contracts”.
The facts
The party cited irregularities over three properties while Chahin was president of the DC.
The first event is related to the sale of the community’s headquarters in Florida. The complaint indicates that, apparently, through the presidency of the DC, the company was hired Baquedano Group SpAin charge of the brokerage of the enclosure.
“There is no background to determine the reason why the company called Grupo Baquedano SpA was hired, nor the conditions of said contract, especially function and fees,” said the plaintiff.
The sale was completed on May 27, 2020, to the company C-Home SpA, for the sum of $380 million. However, without the existence of a new authorization from the Christian Democracy, the purchase was rescinded on August 7 and a new purchase agreement was entered into, for the sum equivalent to 25,218 Unidades de Fomento, that is, twice the previously agreed price. . This was not reported to the party.
That is not all, because the sale of the property ended with the payment of a commission to Grupo Baquedano SpA for the sum of $193,005,273, equivalent to 26.6% of the sale value.
The operation was objected by the Electoral Service (Servel).
Regarding the second event, the complaint accuses that Chahin compromised the sale of a DC property, located in the commune of Macul, for the amount of $366,278,978. This to the company ACM Constructionsrepresented by Angel Castillo Macias.
The sale finally did not materialize and the company sued the Christian Democracy for “the termination of the contract and the collection of the fine or early compensation for damages, which seriously compromises the party’s assets, all due to the actions of its former president, who not only does he contract contrary to the law, but he signs the contract once his presidency is over, knowingly,” they pointed out.
In addition to this, an expert opinion carried out by the architect Carlos Mancilla revealed that the value of the enclosure is $457,848,723, a difference of $91,569,745.
The third situation is related to another promise of sale contract.
On December 23, 2020, Chahin entered into a promise of sale agreement with Admiral Investments Limitedregarding the property called Chacra San Enrique and Santa Ana de Trebulco, commune of Talagante, for the price of 28,830 Unidades de Fomento.
From the DC they accuse that their former president went over what was set by the community, which limited the sale only in the part called “chacra”, leaving the so-called “exercise house” safe and without transferring it.
Likewise, the price of the sale is 12,976 Unidades de Fomento lower than the commercial value of the property, “determined in the sum of 41,806 Unidades de Fomento, according to the appraisal of the month of October 2019 of the architect and judicial expert Mr. Carlos Mancilla Nunez“, states the complaint.
In turn, the DC pointed out that the contracting parties, Julian Miranda Osses, Francisco Leiva Carvajal Y Paula Zigante Moreno –these last two spouses and members of the company Inversiones Almirante Limitada– would be close to Chahin, “especially due to his time at the Law School of the University of Chile.”
