President Boric will declare as accused in the case for the failed purchase of Salvador Allende’s house

The president must testify to the regional prosecutor Centro Norte de Santiago, Patricio Cooper, who investigates the illegality of the transaction involving the socialist senator Isabel Allende Bussi and the former defense minister, Maya Fernández Allende, daughter and granddaughter of the former governor, respectively.

It was in 2023 when Boric postulated buying the residence where Salvador Allende lived and where his daughter currently does, to include it in the national heritage and transform it into a museum. Together with this acquisition, the house of Patricio Aylwin.

However, after signing the deed of sale, the opposition showed the unconstitutionality of the act because the exercise authorities cannot enter into contracts with the State. From this, a series of actions were initiated that both the senator and the minister cease in their positions as established by law.

This Monday, the Comptroller General of the Republic, Dorothy Pérez, He attended the Investigative Commission of the Chamber of Deputies to clarify his participation in the event. In this regard, the authority indicated that although its institution visited the presidential decree that established the authorization for the purchase in more than 900 million pesos (about 200,000 euros), the president did not sign a second decree, just as necessary, which approved such business.

«This second decree does not know that it had been issued, asked to be approved by the second corresponding administrative act. The decree concludes the Comptroller in itself, does not contravene any provision or legal or constitutional, ”said Pérez.

Almost at the same time, the Chamber rejected on Wednesday the constitutional accusation presented by Chile we are against Maya Fernández that he was looking for his disqualification to exercise public office for five years because being at the head of the Ministry of Defense breached the Constitution and the laws. The Chamber rejected by 70 votes against 64 in favor of the libel, which relieved the former minister.

However, this and its aunt must still face another process that seeks its dismissal before the Constitutional Court (TC), which in the case of Fernández does not apply because President Boric asked him for the resignation of the position two weeks ago.

Isabel AllendeMeanwhile, he argued before the TC that the business did not materialize because the deed was not registered with the conservative of real estate and, in addition, the Congress approved the operation by visating the budget for the year 2024 that contained a specific gloss for it.

The decision of Boric, which meant the departure of Fernández del Cabinet, materialized after knowing that the agreement between the Ministry of National Assets, in charge of the sale, considered that the house, once converted into a museum, had to be delivered in commodo to the Allende Foundation, an institution managed by the family.

Likewise, one of the witnesses in the judicial case declared that the State initially offered 833 million pesos for the property, but after a claim of the vendors the price rose at 100 million more.

Prosecutor Cooper, who takes the case, said two weeks ago that he would “invite” the president to declare because the legislation allows him to do so in person or by trade. In any case, he clarified that he would do so as accused because complaints for fraud and embezzlement of public funds Presented by Republican lawyer Raimundo Palamara is directed against him, the senator and the former national defense and property ministers, Marcela Sandoval, who was dismissed after the controversy exploded.

Boric has stated that such residence should become a museum, but acknowledged that “there was an inability and that should have been in sight«.