A report of Ciper Chile revealed the links of the new National Prosecutor, Ángel Valencia, with key and trusted people from the municipalities of Vitacura and Lo Barnechea, who are also being investigated by the courts.
Although Valencia repeatedly ruled out knowing Felipe Guevara (RN), former mayor of Lo Barnechea, who was pointed out as the creator of the formula that allowed the transfer of money from municipalities to a group of private corporations, The counter revealed a series of documents confirming the link. And now, ciper revealed that Valencia has been a trusted man of the circle of power that surrounds them.
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Specifically, it is about his former boss in Lo Barnechea, Patricio Lazcano Silva, when Valencia was an external advisor to said municipality between 2015 and 2022. Lazcano has worked with different right-wing politicians and mayors, such as Pedro Sabat (RN) and Pablo Zalaquett (UDI), as well as Raúl Torrealba in Vitacura and the aforementioned Guevara. In fact, when the latter arrived at the Metropolitan Administration, Lazcano was his right hand. It is also during this period that Valencia provided direct advice to the then mayor, for which he received $2 million.
In another episode revealed by the aforementioned outlet, Valencia signed a contract for more than $20 million with the Western Metropolitan Health Service in March 2022, to defend the then director of the service, the former UDI mayor of San Bernardo, Francisco, in a criminal proceeding. Miranda. Five days later, Miranda was removed from office by the Government of President Gabriel Boric. On that date, the administrative deputy director was Patricio Lazcano, who came to that position in December 2021, after Guevara resigned from the Metropolitan Administration.
Other trusted men
Valencia’s relationship with Lazcano is not the only one that the new head of the Public Ministry has maintained with trusted men from the investigated municipalities. Is about Pablo Parra Pietracaprina Y Andres Ibarra Videla.
The first is the cousin of the former mayor of Ñuñoa, Pedro Sabat and his brother Aldo Sabat, adviser to Vitacura (1997-2010) and Lo Barnechea (2018-2021) and appears in key roles in the municipality led by Guevara. Specifically, he was an advisor to the Lo Barnechea Planning Secretariat, external municipal advisor, executive director of Lo Barnechea Servicios (one of the private corporations that has received the most subsidies from that commune), director of Prodeportes (another private organization). and executive director of Protransportes, another private entity that has received million-dollar municipal subsidies.
In the case of the second, Valencia himself has represented him in court. Ibarra, a lawyer, was for 17 years the legal director of former mayor Torrealba, and has provided advice in both Vitacura and Lo Barnechea, charging through fee slips and company contracts. Through the company Asesorías y Compañía, where he shares property with his wife, Ibarra has presented invoices for more than $400 million to the Municipality of Lo Barnechea between 2012 and 2021. This, in parallel to his work as legal director and advisor in Vitacura, the one who later changed to legal director and executive director of the Cultural Corporation of the same commune.
Currently, he is in the crosshairs of justice, because a historical official of the municipality declared before the prosecutors that Ibarra was one of the people in the circle who delivered cash to the former mayor Torrealba.
