Chile's Constitutional Court rejected lawyer Raimundo Palamara's appeal by nine votes to one, burying the probe into the failed state purchase of ex-president Salvador Allende's house. The ruling upholds the prosecutor's closure of the case in October 2025. Palamara decried the decision as a poor precedent in fighting corruption.
Chile's Tribunal Constitucional (TC), chaired by Daniela Marzi, dismissed on Wednesday a challenge filed by Raimundo Palamara, head of Fundación Fuerza Ciudadana. Palamara had served as complainant in the probe led by regional prosecutor Patricio Cooper into the state's failed purchase of Salvador Allende's house.
In October 2025, prosecutors chose not to pursue the investigation further and requested its closure without charging the suspects. Palamara argued that rules giving the Public Ministry discretion to drop cases and barring accusations for unformalized acts were unconstitutional.
By a nine-to-one vote, the TC rejected the appeal, definitively ending the inquiry. "It is a bad precedent that the prosecution of corruption crimes ultimately depends on a single prosecutor's will. Here, it is not the Foundation that loses, but citizenship as a whole, which once again sees its expectations of fighting the main cancer of our country, corruption, frustrated," Palamara stated.
