The Scandalous Audio: Lawyer Luis Hermosilla’s Controversial Conversations and Career

“Here we are making a mess that is a crime”. This is part of the conversation that revealed the Center for Journalistic Research (Cyprus) where the lawyer Luis Hermosilla mentions, together with his client Daniel Sauer and the lawyer Leonarda Villalobos, payments to officials of the Internal Revenue Service (SII) and the Financial Market Commission (CMF) to obtain confidential information that benefits the businessman in the event of investigations for irregular operations.

The report states that Hermosilla assumed the defense of Sauer, who is the controller of the factoring Factop and the stock brokerage STF, both companies that are under the scrutiny of the CMF. Likewise, he had access to an audio of an almost two-hour meeting between both lawyers and the businessman in which it is proposed to create a fund – called by them as a “black box” – to solve problems, or “expenses”, and perform favors. , “because an important part of this egg is fixed with silver, which is passed like this, and passed in an envelope“, the lawyer is heard saying in the audio.

Who is Luis Hermosilla?

The name of Luis Hermosilla (67) is not little known in the public sphere. On the contrary, the lawyer is a prominent character in the political world, and even in entertainment.

The lawyer was born in 1956, He began military service in the Communist Youth (JJ.CC.) at the age of 14 and graduated from the National Institute in 1973.. The following year, she entered to study law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where she was a generation companion and forged a friendship with the current president of the Senate, Juan Antonio Coloma (UDI), the former Minister of the Interior Andrés Chadwick and José Miguel Olivares.

Also, he was a student of the co-founder of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and assassinated senator Jaime Guzmán.

In 1980, Hermosilla began to collaborate in the Vicariate of Solidarity of the Archbishopric of Santiago. In the case, she represented the family of José Manuel Parada, a sociologist who was kidnapped from the Latin American Integration College and then beheaded in March 1985 by agents of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. The following year, he left the Vicarage and He dedicated himself to work at the Hermosilla y Compañía legal stadium.

In 1996 he began to defend – at Chadwick’s request – Senator Guzmán’s family.who was murdered five years earlier.

During the 1999 presidential campaign, Luis Hermosilla supported the candidacy of Joaquín Lavín (UDI). In 2004, he represented Iván Zamoranoafter the now former soccer player came to him to study a complaint for insults and slander against the journalist Ítalo Passalacqua after his marital separation with María Eugenia Larraín.

Hermosilla also judicially defended the priest and face of the Legion of Christ in Chile John O’Reilly, who was convicted in 2019 of sexual abuse against a minor. Also Claudio Spiniak was defense lawyerbusinessman convicted of leading a pedophile ring.

Besides, He worked as legal advisor for the presidential administration of Sebastián Piñerawhere he was related to criminal cases such as that of Murdered Mapuche community member Camilo Catrillanca and the murdered couple Luchsinger Mackay.

In 2019, Hermosilla represented Chadwick before the constitutional accusation that the National Congress finally approved, and in October of this year he took the defense of the head of advisors of the Second Floor of the Palacio de La Moneda, Miguel Crispi, for the so-called Covenants Case. After the publication of the audios, the Democratic Revolution (RD) activist decided to stop being represented by the lawyer.