Sqm Case: a Late Lesson for the Public Prosecutor's Office

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DIRECTOR: Few things are as contrary to the spirit of the criminal procedural reform as seeing prosecutors arrive in courts with suitcases full of documents, as if the number of filing cabinets had any relation to the outcome of the oral trial. The recent acquittal verdict in the SQM case restores a certain logic and principles that the practice had deteriorated, constituting a harsh criticism of the Public Prosecutor's Office and, at the same t…

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Ricardo Escobar, former director of the Internal Revenue Service (SII), analyzed in Hoy Es Noticia de CNN Chile the acquittal verdict issued by the Third Criminal Court of Santiago in the framework of the so-called SQM case. Specifically, the ruling meant the acquittal of the eight defendants, including Marco Enríquez-Ominami and Pablo Longueira. “It was unlikely that there would be a tax offence, especially in the behaviors seen at that time,” …

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La entrada The true figures of the SQM case: 10 convicted, 132 welcomed to alternative exit, $4.6 billion collected by the Treasury and 8 acquitted were first published in CIPER Chile.

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Chile Vamos candidate, Democrats and Amarillos, Evelyn Matthei, expressed her disagreement with the decision of the Justice to acquit the eight defendants in the SQM case, investigated for corruption crimes in the illegal financing of politics. “A ruling that reaches 12 years after the events occurred is not justice. That’s almost a mockery,” she said. “No one believes anything to anyone, including the Prosecutor’s Office.” “What happens is that…