Just Andrés Chadwick It appeared in the plot of the Audios case, dotted in the WhatsApp conversations of Luis Hermosilla, a typical controversy of the betting houses, a duality without average terms that sought to elucidate if the former Minister of the Interior of Piñera was generated It would be touched or not by the rod of justice.
Since then, restlessness remains in force. In the beginning – you want to record – all roads led to Chadwick: transactions for more than 190 million With Luis Hermosilla, called to the Commission for the Financial Market (CMF) to intercede by Factop and a Law study paid by Daniel Sauer during the constitutional accusation against the former minister.
The former UDI participation in the framework around the Audios or Hermosilla case has been complex to tie judicially, several lawyers involved in the case coincide. In the edge Capital Park, For example, their initials appear in several chats that sought to unlock the project of Patio Group Located in Lampa.
Not only that, the Minister of Housing of the time, Felipe Warddeclared that the efforts to support the initiative came directly from Chadwick and Hermosilla. “It was for government political reasons”he assured the Prosecutor’s Office, revealing that he met both at the Hermosilla office after a lunch.
In the appointment, made in June 2020, Luis Hermosilla told him “Your concern for the void capital park”asserting that “he mentioned that the project had had obstacles for its operation, so, by virtue of my role as Minister of Housing, he asked me to find out about the state of the project and be in contact, and gather to explain more details,” Ward told the persecuting entity.
Despite the indications on the participation of the former Minister in the Negotiation and be considered One more link in the network Prepared by Luis Hermosilla and Álvaro Jalaff to influence the interior of the Ministry of Housing, at the time of Chadwick events he had been dismissed and, therefore, he was no longer a public official, a fundamental requirement to outline a formalization for this crime against him.
However, there are recent efforts of the Orient Metropolitan Prosecutor that show that he still have legal ammunition, but that they point to another target of the same edge capital park: an eventual traceability of the Money route.
This, after the persecuting entity asked the Bank for Credit and Investments (BCI) “Self -service fund transfers”deposited in the same bank, between 2021 and 2023.
In addition to the review of Andrés Chadwick’s accounts, the Prosecutor’s Office presented requirements to different banks regarding accounts associated with Parque Capital S.A. and the former housing minister of the second government of Piñera, Felipe Ward, actors who are still being investigated in an edge where the Public Ministry would be burning its last cartridges.
Chadwick, Ward y Parque Capital
One of the requirements to which the EL CUERTAD RESEARCH UNIT was sent last August 27 to the BCI by the prosecutor Juan Pablo Arayaof the Prosecutor’s Office of High Complexity and Organized Crime, seeking to obtain all kinds of background regarding the movements related to the description of “Self -service fund transfer “.
The persecutor sent a list of 27 fertilizers made between January 16, 2020 and June 16, 2023, deposited in the current account of Andrés Pío Bernardino Chadwick Piñera. These are amounts ranging from $ 1,480,000 – due on January 5, 2021 – to 25 million pesos, on November 14, 2022. In total, the deposits total $204.880.000.
In addition to the fertilizers to the “self -service funds”, prosecutor Araya requested the cardboard which detail various operations in the investments made in mutual funds and “the complete detail and documentary support of the aforementioned operations.” These are six charges – funds – for 122 million pesos and two fertilizers for a total of $ 51,753,661.
The same day that the Public Ministry sent the request regarding the Chadwick account, two other information requirements – also made by prosecutor Juan Pablo Araya – were addressed to two banks (BCI and ITAÚ), but this time requesting information about two investigated accounts registered in the name of Parque Capital S.A.the industrial complex of more than 400 hectares that it has Patio Group A lamp.
The first one, addressed to the Bank of Credit and Investments, requires information on seven banking operations, including two positions by LBTR (gross settlement in real time), an electronic transfer mechanism of funds operated by the Central Bank and that allows payments without waiting – in real time – that add between them almost almost 300 million pesos, one registered in August 2021 and the other in December of the same year.
The second requirement is a SA Capital Park account at Banco Itaú, in which case the Prosecutor’s Office requests the “Full remission of monthly cartolas”between January 20 and August 2025, in addition to detailed information of more than 57 deposits, “attaching supporting documentation about the origin of the funds, issuing entity, and any other relevant fact that records in the bank’s records”, as reads in the application. Strictly speaking, these are movements for almost 7 billion pesos.
Another requirement for the same Bank, expressed in a third item, is related to a request on support documentation, images of collected checks, vouchers of electronic transfers and payments to suppliers registered in more than 250 banking operations, made between January of the year 2020 and November of the year 2024, amounts that exceed the 11 billion pesos.
Four days after requesting the requirements from the banks for the accounts of Andrés Chadwick and Capital Park, on September 1, 2025, prosecutor Juan Pablo Araya asked the Bank for Credit and Investments to send the investment cartolas of mutual funds of the former Minister of Housing Felipe Ward Edwardsin order to clarify whether or not he received money to hurry the Patio Group project in Lampa. It would be, in rigor, nine charges for $97.938.604.
In this way, the prosecution seeks to close the investigation with respect to an eventual crime of bribery or money laundering, as expressed by the prosecutor Miguel Ángel Orellana in the application for the rise influences, bribery, bribery and money laundering crimesso it is necessary to have a bank history in order to determine or rule out the existence of payments to public officials, or transfer of money that may constitute behaviors of the money laundering ”.
Regarding Chadwick’s accounts, the BCI pointed out in his response that the gloss of “Transfer of self -service funds” It originates in other current accounts of the same bank and that the information was sent in a form attached to the prosecutor Juan Pablo Araya. Regarding mutual funds, the bank suggested consulting the general administrator of the same entity: BCI Asset Management. On the accounts of Felipe Ward and Capital Park, there are no history yet in the investigative folder.
The counter He communicated with the Orient Metropolitan Prosecutorfrom where they assured that they would not refer to the latest proceedings related to the case.
