Chile’s billionaire president under scrutiny over Pandora leak
Al Jazeera
Papers gave details about a 2010 stake sale by Sebastian Pinera’s family in a mining project that activists objected to.
Chile’s public prosecutor has said it will investigate the sale of a mining project involving the family of President Sebastian Pinera after new details emerged about the transaction in the Pandora Papers leak.
Marta Herrera, head of the office’s anti-corruption unit, On Friday said the agency would investigate possible bribery-related corruption charges as well as tax violations.
The Pandora Papers are a cache of leaked documents that The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists says reveal offshore transactions involving global political and business figures. Among them are documents that appear to outline a 2010 deal involving the stake sale by Pinera’s family in the Dominga mining project, a sprawling copper and iron project that activists have long said would cause undue environmental harm.
