US EditionChilean Court Absolves Eight Accused of ‘Sqm Case’ · Global Voices
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After more than two years, room 201 of the C building of the Center of Justice was for the last time the scene of the trial of the case of illegal financing of politics, SQM. On day 560 of the instance that began on February 13, 2023, the Third Oral Criminal Court (TOP) of Santiago decided to acquit the eight accused in the case that began in 2015.
The eight defendants in the case of illegal financing of politics by the mining company Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), the world’s second largest lithium producer, have been acquitted of the charges—tax offences and bribery—by the Third Criminal Court of Santiago. The verdict was heard on Wednesday, after more than a decade of investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which received harsh criticism from the judges for the delay…
After more than a decade of judicial investigation and almost three years of oral trial, today it became known...
"It is also our fault (...), we have not come to people to explain in the most correct way" how the system works, acknowledged the spokeswoman María Soledad Melo. "The first reflection after this forceful ruling has to be done by the Public Prosecutor's Office itself," said Pablo Longueira's defense.
After the ruling of the Third Oral Court in the Criminal case to acquit the defendants in the Soquimich case, Communist Party Senator Claudia Pascual issued her criticisms of the institutionality that governs to sanction an unparalleled case in the national economic crime case. “I think this is an absolutely clear sign of [...] The post “It’s like saying they never did anything,” says Sen. Pascual on acquittal in case SQM appeared first on Radio…
Cecilia Vergara Mattei After three years of trial, the Third Criminal Court of Santiago defined acquitting those involved in the SQM case, investigated more than ten years ago, and questioned the work of the Public Prosecutor's Office in the case for the time elapsed in the inquiry.In his X account, the independent presidential candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami highlighted the acquittal verdict drl
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