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Fri Oct 8, 2021, 02:06 PM Oct 2021

Chile president investigated after Pandora Papers leak

The Chilean public prosecutor's office on Friday opened an investigation into President Sebastian Pinera over the sale of a mining company through a firm owned by his children, which appeared in the Pandora Papers leaks.

Attorney General Jorge Abbott opened the probe after the Pandora Papers revealed the sale of the Dominga mining company by a firm "linked to the family of President Pinera," said Marta Herrera, head of the anti-corruption unit in the public prosecutor's office.

On Monday, Pinera said that there was no conflict of interest in the 2010 sale, which took place during his previous mandate as president.

Herrera said the public prosecutor's office took the decision to investigate because of the possibility that the deal involved "bribery, eventual tax crimes, matters that will all ultimately be the subject of an investigation."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chile-president-investigated-after-pandora-papers-leak/ar-AAPhLPq

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