The subjects allegedly provided the pistols used in the crime of Diego Schmidt-Hebbel and the double murder on Calle Infante. Furthermore, Carabineros seized the plotter printer yesterday that Pilar Pérez allegedly used to design plans to guide the crimes.

Although neither the revolver with which José Ruz Rodríguez murdered the engineer Diego Schmidt-Hebbel nor the weapon used in the double crime against the architect Francisco Zamorano and his partner Héctor Arévalo have been found, the Eastern Prosecutor's Office already has the statement of the individuals who provided the weapons and other accessories to the hitman hired by María del Pilar Pérez, who will be re-formalized in the coming days.

They are Juan Francisco González González, alias "El Milico Juan," and Aladino del Carmen Pereira Olivera, a well-known radio operator and armorer for the Central Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) who has testified in several human rights judicial proceedings, such as the crime against journalist José Carrasco (see sidebar).

This time, Pereira will have to face the new justice system. This is because it transpired that his formalization will be requested for violating the arms control law, and it will be investigated whether this conduct was repeated over time.

Sources linked to the case indicated that both subjects are well-known armorers from the Franklin neighborhood, the place where Ruz contacted them following the tip allegedly given to him by Pérez herself.

In particular, Pereira is accused of being the one who provided the hitman with the silencer used on the day of the double crime on Calle Infante. Meanwhile, González, who maintains the status of a protected witness in this case, allegedly facilitated the weapons themselves.

The subject is being kept in a hotel in downtown Santiago so that he does not receive threats or pressure, becoming a fundamental piece of the investigation. Plotter printer Carabineros seized the plotter printer yesterday at Pilar Pérez's house, which, from being a professional tool of the architect, became with this diligence key evidence to charge the woman as the mastermind.

This follows the discovery by the Prosecutor's Office a few days ago at Ruz's home of the floor plan of his brother-in-law Agustín Molina's house, supposedly prepared by the woman, which would guide the hitman's steps on the day he was to kill her sister's husband.

Despite not being subject to a criminal charge or prosecution, Aladino Pereira has testified on countless occasions before the courts. His days as an armorer and radio operator for the CNI have led him to be a witness in cases as relevant as the appearance of a lead regarding the death of the gastronomic businessman Silvio Aurelio Sichel (Cutufa II case) and the execution of four professionals in 1986.

In both situations, and just as is happening now, Pereira collaborated with the justice system. In May 2006, he testified before the 33rd Criminal Court that the Carabineros officer Víctor Fornet gave him a Browning brand pistol to check. "The weapon was in good condition and I tested it in the well of my workshop," he noted.

After this, Pereira testified that that weapon was handed over to Army Captain (R) Patricio Castro days before the Sichel crime. "Víctor Muñoz Orellana appears in Corbalán's apartment carrying a Browning firearm with a silencer and hands it to Patricio Castro, telling him, 'Boss, here is the tool for what you know,' and Castro in turn shows the weapon to Corbalán," he said on that occasion.

Source: La Nacion, December 6, 2008

Case, roll 6671-2005: Crime of torture committed against Sergio Patricio Aguiló Melo b) Aladino del Carmen Pereira Olivera (428), who explains that in June 1980 he was hired as a "civilian employee" by the CNI, being assigned the "operational" name "Sergio Sepúlveda Ochoa." In September of the same year, he was assigned to the Borgoño barracks, under the command of Colonel Roberto Schmied; in 1982 he was designated as the person in charge of radio communications.

Regarding the investigated event, he states: "without remembering the exact date... due to the shortage of officials in the Unit, I was invited by Alfredo Arias, I am unaware of further background on his person, and by an official nicknamed 'El Choco' (Víctor Manuel Molina) to accompany them to carry out a 'fixed point'...

I decided to accompany them. During the journey, Alfredo Arias indicated to me that we were going to set a point on a brother of 'Nacho Aguiló'... Sergio Aguiló Melo... we arrived at a sector very close to the Quilín Roundabout... we remained for several hours, until more or less four in the morning, when a vehicle left one of the houses that was being watched... 'El Choco' says to Alfredo: 'There goes the lady'...

Alfredo says not to worry and takes the radio, communicating with another work team... 'El Choco' starts the vehicle and we leave the place heading to the Borgoño barracks... About a week later... Alfredo Arias commented to me that Sergio Aguiló Melo had been detained in downtown Santiago, in 1982... in the radio communications office...

I remember on one occasion... between the years 1980 and 1982 I heard 'Here comes the Minister'... I headed towards the amphitheater... finding myself face to face with the Minister of the Interior of the time, Mr.

Sergio Fernández Fernández... recording in the Logbook... the arrival of Mr. Sergio Fernández, whose purpose for the visit I am unaware of..." Judicially, he reiterates, on page 942, having been hired as a civilian employee of the CNI, with the false identity of "Sergio Sepúlveda Ochoa"; from the end of 1980 he was at the Borgoño barracks.

The deponent performed duties in the F 2.9 brigade, in charge of bank security, and was also a radio operator for the barracks. Different brigades operated in charge of investigating political parties such as the MAPU, Christian Left, Socialist, and MIR.

There was also a selective execution unit directed by Álvaro Corbalán; it was for "extermination." The detainees were kept in the basement. He adds: "The interrogations... were carried out in the same basement, in a room specially equipped for such purposes; this was soundproofed, on the door it had some rubbers that served as insulation, so that from the outside nothing could be heard...

In this office there was a desk with a typewriter... they also used elements such as a metal bed frame, a low-amperage magneto, but of very high voltage... they applied current to the detainees, this I knew since, on one occasion, when I was a sentry in the basement sector, an agent came out of this room who went to look for water and proceeded to wet the bed frame that was inside that room.

Apparently, they were with a detainee... The doctor Osvaldo Pincetti also always attended the interrogations... he tried to hypnotize the detainees during the interrogations... Regarding the event being investigated in these files, the only thing I can contribute is that...

I was at the Borgoño barracks when 'El Rucio Alfredo,' Alfredo Arias, also a civilian employee of the Central... asked me to accompany him to carry out a 'fixed point'; the agent 'Choco Grande'... driver of the vehicle, also went to this diligence.

The 'fixed point' was carried out near the Quilín Roundabout... they were looking for Hernán Aguiló Melo, who was from the MIR, who turned out to be the brother of the plaintiff... Sergio Aguiló Melo. We remained for quite a few hours... and from the house we were watching, a vehicle driven by a woman left... subsequently, we left the place...

Days later, Alfredo Arias himself told me that he had participated in the detention of Sergio Aguiló Melo at Alameda with San Martín, together with 'Captain Ugarte,' if I remember correctly... I can also point out that in the vehicles used by the groups, blank exempt decrees signed by the Minister of the Interior were kept, which, in case of detaining any person, were written by hand by some official and, subsequently, this document... was handed over to the court when the detainee was placed at their disposal..."

Source: Judiciary, June 4, 2012

A former CNI agent was part of a criminal gang in Santiago.

A criminal gang detained in the commune of San Ramón, in Santiago, which was placed at the disposal of the courts by the Southern Prosecutor's Office yesterday, was dedicated to the trafficking, manufacture, and modification of weapons of all kinds.

The gang was composed of Aladino del Carmen Pereira Olivera, 62 years old, an armorer by trade. The aforementioned Pereira was an agent of the CNI, the repressive organ of the dictatorship that carried out bloody criminal activity in the 80s, continuing the repressive action of the DINA.

The repressive agent was incorporated into the CNI in June 1978, hired as a civilian employee of the army; he remained active in the repressive entity until 1986 using the alias of Sergio Sepúlveda Ochoa and being known by the aliases "Romeíto," "Checho," and "Alan." He acted, precisely, as an armorer and artificer at the Loyola Barracks and later at the Borgoño Barracks, where he also operated as a radio operator in the communications center.

Until now, the former agent, despite having been investigated in several human rights processes, has not been prosecuted in any case. However, he continued his tendency toward illicit action in criminal spheres where, finally, the law has caught up with him.

Source: resumen.cl, January 11, 2017

Former CNI agent detained: Sold weapons to criminal gangs

Aladino Pereira Olivera, a former CNI agent, was detained this Tuesday by the PDI and remained in preventive detention, accused of leading a gang dedicated to selling large-caliber weapons to criminal gangs in the southern sector of the capital.

Aladino Pereira Olivera, a former CNI agent, was detained this Tuesday by the PDI and remained in preventive detention, accused of leading a gang dedicated to selling large-caliber weapons to criminal gangs in the southern sector of the capital.

The 62-year-old subject maintained a workshop in the commune of San Ramón. Pereira entered the CNI in 1980 and was under the command of Álvaro Corbalán at the Borgoño Barracks, located in the Mapocho sector of the capital.

According to lanacion.cl, he is the same subject who allegedly sold silencers to José Ruz, the hitman for María del Pilar Pérez López, better known as "La Quintrala." The investigation into the actions of the former CNI agent began in June and managed to determine that modified weapons were manufactured in his workshop, which were used by criminal gangs in the southern sector of the capital, especially in the La Bandera neighborhood.

In the police procedure that was carried out at that location, different types of weapons were seized, and 997.47 grams of cocaine hydrochloride were found, among other illicit substances.

Source: elciudadano.com, November 11, 2017

"Blanca paloma": Former CNI agent who led an arms trafficking gang is detained

Former CNI agent Aladino Pereira also has a record for sexual abuse in 2011, drug trafficking, and violation of the Arms Law, and is being investigated as the alleged... This Tuesday, the PDI dismantled a gang dedicated to the manufacture and distribution of handmade weapons that was led by the former agent of the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), Aladino Pereira Olivera.

According to information provided by Investigations, Pereira Olivera was the group's armorer and artificer, who had workshops for the manufacture, handling, and delivery of handmade and conventional weapons, as well as ammunition.

The operation called "Aladino" involved a six-month investigation by the PDI and the Metropolitan Southern Prosecutor's Office, managing to seize a large quantity of handmade and conventional weapons at the site, such as about twenty pistols, rifles, and silencers, according to Cooperativa.

In the place, a large quantity of doses of cannabis and cocaine hydrochloride was also found. The former CNI agent also has a record for sexual abuse in 2011, drug trafficking, and violation of the Arms Law, and is being investigated as the alleged seller of the silencers used by María del Pilar Pérez "La Quintrala's" hitman, José Ruz, in the crime against her ex-husband and his partner.

Given this information, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Mahmud Aleuy, indicated that he was concerned that other former agents of the dictatorship are linked to these types of cases. "From 2015 onwards, work has been done along the lines of being able to stop these gangs that operate and provide weapons to different criminals," the authority explained.

Source: theclinic.cl, January 10, 2017

Former CNI agents sentenced for torture against Deputy Aguiló in 1981

The special judge Alejandro Solís sentenced, among others, the former operational chief of the defunct Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), Álvaro Corbalán Castilla, for the crimes committed against the current Maiz deputy in December 1981.

In his ruling, he says that the repressive organization "practiced torture systematically" and that this was ordered by "its leadership." To three years in prison, but with the benefit of supervised release, was the sentence that the special judge, Alejandro Solís, dictated for the former operational chief of the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), Álvaro Corbalán, for the torture applied in December 1981 to the current deputy Sergio Aguiló.

Along with Corbalán, who is being held in Punta Peuco with several convictions against him, the former agents Roberto Urbano Schmied Zanzi (3 years in prison), Alejandro Roberto Morel Concha (3 years in prison), Manuel Segundo Gallardo Sepúlveda (3 years in prison), Carlos Ruperto Contreras Ferrada (61 days in prison), and Sergio Iván Díaz Lara (61 days in prison) were identified as responsible for the kidnapping and subsequent torture suffered by the then-opposition leader.

None of them, however, will have to be in prison for this particular case since they received the benefits of supervised release or conditional remission of the sentence. Aguiló, upon learning of the ruling, highlighted its occurrence and said that although the sentences were low, that was not the important thing, but rather that a precedent would be set so that what Corbalán Castilla had done at that time would be known, recalling that from Punta Peuco the retired major is organizing a tribute to Augusto Pinochet that will take place on Saturday the 8th at the Caupolicán theater.

The parliamentarian was detained at 2:30 PM on Friday, December 4, 1981, at the intersection of Alameda and San Martín, in the heart of downtown Santiago, by officials who said they belonged to the Central Nacional de Informaciones, without showing any order. "They put him in a vehicle, covered his eyes with adhesive tape, and took him to an unknown place, where he spent ten days permanently subjected to torture, which he details, related to the application of electric current to his body while being interrogated about his links with the Christian Left; they threatened to kill his two-year-old daughter and to torture his wife; they made him pose before a film camera with an AKA-type machine gun and write several statements," the ruling states. His family, upon learning of the detention, filed a writ of amparo before the Court of Appeals, but it was reported that he was not detained. Later, the 2nd Military Prosecutor's Office released a certificate stating that his detention was ordered by the Minister of the Interior of the time, Sergio Fernández Fernández. Subsequently, Aguiló was transferred to the former Penitentiary, where he was left in free communication. As a result of this, in 1982, he filed a complaint with the Military Prosecutor's Office for the events that occurred during his captivity and held the then-Minister of the Interior, Sergio Fernández, and Augusto Pinochet himself responsible for them. According to Aguiló, upon insisting on his complaint in 2005, former minister Fernández had knowledge of the situation he faced when he was detained. "What Minister Fernández did was be part of a mechanism with the CNI in which the game was to hand over to the CNI a blank exempt decree with an uncertain date, which would detain opponents of the regime, torture them systematically, make them disappear (...) and subsequently sign the legalization when he decided to make them appear before the justice system." Aguiló clarified at the time that he had the exempt decree that Sergio Fernández signed for his arrest, one of the documents he considers key to proving that the former Secretary of State knew perfectly well about his whereabouts, refusing to give news to those who searched for him for eight days. The Ministry of the Interior only recognized the detention on December 12, after Aguiló and another group of prisoners had already been locked up and tortured in a secret CNI location, which he later learned was the former Borgoño barracks. "Minister Fernández himself recognized my detention only on the 12th. If he recognized my detention that day, if he recognized that my detention had emanated from an order of his, from an exempt decree signed by him, then the logical chain of events is produced, that is, that all the previous days I spent in a secret CNI place were with the knowledge of Minister Fernández," the parliamentarian stressed. He also maintained that Fernández knew of his whereabouts and denied information about it to his relatives. "He knew that the days that my detention was denied to everyone were 'necessary' days to be at the disposal in a secret CNI barracks to be brutally tortured." Sergio Fernández, in his statement before the court for this case, confirmed the fact and that he signed the decree with Aguiló's detention, but said he did not know about the way he was treated, denied having visited the CNI's Borgoño barracks and witnessed sessions of torture, as former agents said in the process, and, furthermore, expressed ignorance, as some witnesses pointed out, that in the repressive organization they called him "El Jote." Magistrate Solís, in his investigation, determined that "According to the facts proven in this process, it is necessary to point out that the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI) was created by Decree Law No. 1878, on August 13, 1977, and succeeded the dissolved Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), receiving from it its personnel and assets, with the generic function of 'maintaining the current institutional order.' According to Article 1, it was defined as a 'specialized military organization of a technical-professional nature,' but the significant function of the CNI was the operational one, consisting of direct action against members of leftist groups. Against them, actions of infiltration, surveillance, detentions, torture, and armed repression were directed. To carry out all these tasks, its agents, by orders of their leadership, acted under false names, not revealing their identities even before the Courts of Justice. They acted in practice without subjection to any norm, with unlimited powers of movement and operational means. In Santiago, the CNI operated in numerous premises, mostly clandestine. The best known were those at Avenida República No. 517, where the General Headquarters was installed, and Borgoño No. 1470, a place where many detainees were kept who were subjected to torture and several died." The resolution adds: "Indeed, regarding the methods of repression, the CNI maintained a double methodology when it came to actions of political repression or counterinsurgency. On one hand, suspects were apprehended without any administrative or judicial order, or arrests were carried out that were acknowledged, and in many cases, arrest warrants based on exempt decrees signed in blank were used, and the alleged suspects were placed at the disposal of Military Prosecutor's Offices. During this period, the CNI practiced torture systematically, as the agents themselves recognize in said precedents. The main methods of torture continued to be, as in the time of the DINA, the use of electricity on sensitive parts of the body, violent blows of all kinds, and the immersion of the tortured person's head in water to the point of suffocation. In many cases, they threatened to detain and torture members of the family, the detainee's spouse, and their minor children." Furthermore, it maintains "That, in these premises, State agents performed their duties who, holding various degrees of hierarchy in the command, ordered some and executed others, the captures of people affiliated with political parties or leftist movements, whom they illegally locked up in the places they had designated for it, breaking them under physical torments of various kinds with the object of making them provide information about other people of similar ideology to also apprehend them or to make them confess to illicit acts they had not perpetrated." The former CNI agent, Aladino del Carmen Pereira Olivera, who worked for the CNI from 1980 at the Borgoño barracks, stated in the process carried out by Judge Solís that "in each of the vehicles in which the operations were carried out, there were blank detention orders that were signed by the Minister of the Interior Sergio Fernández; I remember they said 'Exempt Decree' and that they were used by the agents and were numbered and filled out when a person was detained, when they were going to be passed to the courts, since in the other cases they were not used. I remember that Álvaro Corbalán, who directed the operations, used the expression 'tonight we have to give meat to the condor,' which meant that someone was going to die and for which no papers were used..."

Source: elperiodista.cl, June 7, 2018