The revelations of the “Pandora Papers” also weighed on Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. The country’s attorney general has now ordered an investigation.
The Chilean attorney general Jorge Abbott ordered an investigation against President Sebastián Piñera after the publications from the “Pandora Papers”.
Piñera are accused of corruption and tax offenses in connection with the purchase and sale of the “Minera Dominga” mine in northern Chile, according to a statement from the public prosecutor. “I have full confidence that the judiciary will confirm, as it has already done, that there were no irregularities and that I am completely innocent,” said Piñera again.
The revelations in the “Pandora Papers”, according to which the family of Sebastián Piñera had made part of the multi-million dollar business with “Minera Dominga” in the British Virgin Islands in 2010, had caused a stir in Chile. The final payment for the sale of the mine to a family friend is said to have depended on the refusal of the government – then under President Piñera – to declare the area in northern Chile a nature reserve. Piñera had denied any involvement in business with the controversial mining project over the Virgin Islands.
“I was neither informed nor consulted about the sale of” Minera Dominga “in 2010,” said Piñera. The facts in the reports are not new. “They became public knowledge in 2017, examined by the public prosecutor and clarified by the courts in 2017.” According to Piñera’s account, there was no criminal offense.
An international journalist consortium published secret deals of hundreds of billionaires, politicians, religious leaders and drug traffickers on Sunday. These included three Latin American presidents. According to the consortium, the so-called Pandora Papers are based on almost twelve million documents from 14 companies worldwide.
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