The Santiago Court of Appeals rejected the amparo filed by Arnaldo Domínguez, advisor to former deputy Joaquín Lavín León. The court ruled the filing was improper and that the defense should have pursued other procedural remedies.
The panel of judges Guillermo de la Barra, Pablo Toledo and lawyer Paola Herrera ruled Domínguez’s amparo inadmissible. The decision stated that the challenged facts must be addressed through ordinary procedural appeals before the Seventh Guarantee Court.
Domínguez’s defense announced it will seek review from the Supreme Court. Domínguez remains in preventive detention at Santiago 1 for fraud against the treasury, influence peddling, tax crimes, bribery and falsification of a private commercial instrument committed between 2015 and 2025.
Separately, Eugenio Campos, head of the National Prosecutor’s Anti-Corruption Unit, defended Lavín León’s preventive detention before the same court. Campos clarified that the charges of repeated treasury fraud, repeated falsification of a private commercial instrument and influence peddling were the same ones authorized by the Supreme Court in the desafuero proceeding.
