Case 113.075: case of illegitimate coercion against students from Temuco

41.- Testimony of Gonzalo Aníbal del Corazón de Jesús Ovalle Maturana , on page 621, who stated that in January 1986 he worked in the Legal Division of the Central Nacional de Informaciones in Santiago as a Civilian Employee .

He arrived at that department in 1985 and remained there until 1990. The head of the division was Víctor Gálvez , but at that time he was on vacation, so he was being substituted by Guido Poli . He recalls that he had to travel to Temuco in January or February of that year to coordinate the handover of detainees to the Military Prosecutor's Office, who were being held at the CNI barracks in that city.

In Temuco, he met with an Army officer named Pedro Guzmán , who was called " el cholga " and whose operational name was " Emilio Téllez ," whose photograph was shown to him by the court. He added that he had many difficulties in carrying out his work due to constant disagreements with Guzmán, who wanted the deponent to take steps to extend the detention period of the detainees, which he opposed because his mission was to hand over the detainees to the Prosecutor's Office and nothing more.

Furthermore, he remembers that there was another officer with the surname Moraga, who, unlike Guzmán, was kind and cooperative with his efforts. He said he had been in Temuco for no more than a day and a half.

His function consisted initially of reviewing the detainees' statements to correct those passages that appeared implausible. Subsequently, he went to the prosecutor's office for their handover, where he saw some detainees for the first and only time.

He said he had spoken with Prosecutor Kaufhold prior to the handover of the detainees to coordinate the entire procedure, in which he requested authorization to hand over the detainees in groups. He does not recall seeing personnel from Santiago, other than Guzmán , at the Temuco barracks.

Source: Judiciary, October 30, 2009