Prosecutor Guerra says the agreement is based on objectivity, not on a whim

The Regional Chief of the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office of the East, Manuel Guerra, badured that the minutes of an oral trial did not allow to convict Carlos Delano, Carlos Lavín, owner of Penta, nor corruption. Pablo Wagner, former Under Secretary of Mines

Guerra said that at this stage of the case, which broke out more than three years ago, the "Prosecution" does not appear. had that a testimony like that of Mr. Hugo Bravo, already deceased and the rest was only circumstantial versions, for which we accredited "a residual crime" and not the opportunity to try the Thus, as we have the duty of objectivity, we must act in the same way.It is not a matter of doing "what you want" but what we can do " said the persecutor at the end of the long second day at the Justice Center in Santiago.

Earlier, from Puerto Montt, the national prosecutor Jorge Abbott defended the agreement between the East Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office and the defenses of the Penta holding controllers

Judge Daniel Aravena of the eighth court of Santiago guarantee approved the summary trial for the owners of the holding Penta, Carlos Alberto Delano and Carlos Eugenio Lavin who was sentenced only for tax crimes, with the exception of the former authority, which was sentenced for unlawful enrichment and not for bribery.

On June 9, Judge Aravena will report the conviction with benefits to which he will adhere these two defendants in addition to the former director of the holding company, Marcos Castro, since they agreed with the public prosecutor 4 years of freedom

Previously, the same magistrate excluded the plaintiffs from the Penta case, ie the State Defense Council (CDE), the Smart Citizen Foundation and representatives of the Socialist Party; and has given only active legitimacy to the Internal Revenue Service (SII).

Although Aravena decided to accept the request of the prosecutor and the defense at Wednesday's hearing, the CDE reiterated its position and expressed its desire to seek the nullity of the Decision and the adviser of the CDE, María Inés Horwitz announced that they will study to appeal to the Santiago Court of Appeal.