The representative of RN, Francisco Chahuán, specified that the president was asked to meet “to transmit a signal of support against what is a pyrotechnics that seeks to generate an electoral effect by violating res judicata.”
“We had a conversation (with Piñera) that confirmed what we already knew in advance, with what has to do with the Dominga case. Everything that has appeared with a lot of fireworks these days, we confirm that they are situations that were known in 2017 and they were investigated, “explained the leader of the UDI, Javier Macaya, as quoted by the newspaper El Mercurio.
The president is accused of participating in the sale of the Dominga mining company through a tax haven in the British Virgin Islands in 2010, while he was exercising his first term, which would imply a conflict of interest, which Piñera nevertheless ruled out.
The news represented a new shock for the president, who yesterday defended himself in a brief message to the Nation: “We do not share the decision announced today by the prosecution to initiate an investigation into a cause that has already been known and tried. But I have the full I trust that Justice, as it has already done, will confirm the inexistence of irregularities and also my total innocence “.
In the midst of the scandal unleashed by the journalistic investigation known as Pandora Papers, the president affirmed last Monday that the sale of the mining company “strictly complied with Chilean tax rules”, that the operation was not “consulted” and that in the sale “each and every tax was paid.”
However, the investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealed that one of the conditions for carrying out the transaction was that the land where the project was located was not declared a natural reserve, a decision that in Chile depends on the president himself.
Piñera also alleged that he never knew about this transaction and that upon assuming office he handed over all his companies to a blind trust to avoid possible conflicts of interest.
In addition to the judicial front, the bench of opposition deputies announced that next week they will present a constitutional accusation (impeachment) against him just months before the elections and the end of his term.
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