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The right-wing opposition (the Alliance for Chile) likened the Chiledeportes and Publicam cases to previous corruption scandals that took place during the administration of Ricardo Lagos. Former presidential candidate Sebastián Piñera (which later also was found linked to Publicam [ 9 ] ) said the scandals proved the government had few qualms ...
The case exposed widespread corruption within the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) in Chile, involving the embezzlement of funds and irregularities in the awarding of contracts. The investigation revealed that contractors had received approximately 1,250 million Chilean pesos (equivalent to approximately 415,000 USD at the time) from the MOP for ...
The company is currently under indictment and investigation for diverting funds to different politicians in Chile. The SQM Case is closely related to the Penta Case , since defendants from both cases overlap and it is the same type of crime.
Chile's moderate right made gains in regional elections on Sunday while President Gabriel Boric's coalition avoided crushing defeat, pointing to a return to less polarized politics ahead of the ...
Pinocheques A corruption scandal involving the eldest son of Augusto Pinochet. Killing of Senator Jaime Guzmán in 1991 Operation Silence (1991) DINE (successor to DINA) assists several military and DINA officers wanted for human rights abuse to escape from Chile (including Eugenio Berrios , Arturo Sanhueza Ross , Carlos Herrera Jiménez )
Human rights abuses in Chile under Augusto Pinochet were the crimes against humanity, persecution of opponents, political repression, and state terrorism committed by the Chilean Armed Forces, members of Carabineros de Chile and civil repressive agents members of a secret police, during the military dictatorship of Chile under General Augusto ...
Romina Cortés couldn't pronounce her sister’s last name. Cortés, 43, waited impatiently Sunday at the airport in Santiago, Chile, where she would soon meet her sister, Maria, whose existence ...
These funds were then directed to the political campaigns of mainly UDI (far right wing) politicians as campaign contributions. Several Penta employees, as some of their family members, have been convicted [1] of tax evasion, bribery, and money laundering. Both directors of Penta Bank, Carlos Alberto Délano and Carlos Eugenio Lavín, were ...