Senator Velásquez values advance of bill that increases penalties to sanction copper theft » Diario Regionalista Antofagasta

In a new step to stop the systematic theft of copper and other minerals, the Senate first approved a bill amending the Penal Code, establishing more severe penalties for those who steal, transport or market minerals and their by-products. Senator Esteban Velásquez (FRVS), the author of the initiative, valued progress as “an act of justice with the productive north of Chile.” The bill creates the specific offence of mineral extraction, which will…