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SQM Case
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile ( SQM) is a Chilean chemical and mining company, who mines lithium and makes fertilizer and other chemicals. The company is currently under indictment and investigation for diverting funds to different politicians in Chile. The SQM Case is closely related to the Penta Case, since defendants from both cases overlap and it is the same type of crime. So it's also called the Penta-SQM Case. So far, 6 defendants have been charged. This case includes tax fraud and violations of political campaign laws. Different persons, either politicians or their advisers or even family members, created fake invoices which SQM then paid. It is alleged that those who created these fake invoices then passed those funds onto political parties in violation of campaign finance laws. So they were acting on behalf of the politicians, without the politicians being involved directly. As to whether those funds bought any favors from the politicians for SQM, so far that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sociedad Química Y Minera
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) is a Chilean chemical company and a supplier of plant nutrients, iodine, lithium and industrial chemicals. It is the world’s biggest lithium producer. SQM's natural resources and its main production facilities are located in the Atacama Desert in Tarapacá and Antofagasta regions. History State company (1968-1983) Created in 1968 as a ''Sociedad Minera Mixta'' between private investors and the State of Chile (Compañía Salitrera Anglo-Lautaro 62.5% and CORFO 37.5%). The new company was made up of the combination of the deposits and assets of the Compañía Salitrera Anglo-Lautaro and the Empresa Salitrera Victoria owned by CORFO. At the end of 1966 the problem of the expiration of the state enterprise managed by COVENSA 30 July 1968 and how to organize the nitrate industry arose. Negotiations with Anglo-Lautaro to establish a partnership led to the creation of SQM, with the intent to restructure the declining nitrate production, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penta Case
The Penta case (or Penta- SQM, since the two cases are related) is a criminal case brought against Grupo Penta (or Empresas Penta), a Chilean holding company, and employees of the Chilean National Tax System (SII). Key employees of the firm have been convicted of committing tax fraud by creating fake invoices in the National Tax System (SII). These funds were then directed to the political campaigns of mainly UDI (far right wing) politicians as campaign contributions. Several Penta employees, as some of their family members, have been convicted of tax evasion, bribery, and money laundering Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictions .... Both directors of Penta Bank, Carlos Alberto Délano and Carlos Eugenio Lavín, were penalized with paying a fine, spending a few days in a specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricio Contesse
Patricio in Spanish, or Patrício in Portuguese, is a male given name equivalent to Patrick in English. The Spanish name is pronounced with the stress on the same first i as Portuguese, but an accent is not needed because this follows normal rules for stress in Spanish. Notable people with the name include: Given name Spanish * Patricio Arabolaza, (1893–1935), Spanish footballer *Patricio Aylwin (1918–2016), Chilean politician * Patricio Montojo, (1839–1917), Spanish admiral *Patricio O'Ward (born 1999), Mexican race car driver Portuguese * Patrício Antônio Boques (born 1974), Brazilian footballer *Patrício Freire (born 1987), Brazilian mixed martial artist known as Patrício Pitbull Surname * Miguel Patricio (born 1966/1967), Portuguese businessman * Rui Patrício Rui Pedro dos Santos Patrício (; born 15 February 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A team Roma and the Portugal national team. He is often nicknamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolina Tohá
Carolina Montserrat Tohá Morales (born 12 May 1965) is a Chilean political scientist and politician from the Party for Democracy (''Partido por la Democracia'', PPD), currently serving as Minister of the Interior and Public Security. She was previously mayor of Santiago from 2012 to 2016. Biography Carolina Tohá is the daughter of the socialist politician José Tohá, who served as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Defence in the government of Salvador Allende, and was tortured and killed by the country's military dictatorship in 1974. Tohá studied law at the University of Chile between 1980 and 1983, and entered politics in 1984, when she participated in the refounding of the University of Chile Student Federation (FECh). She was one of the founders of the PPD in 1987. From 1990, Tohá studied political science at the University of Milan, where she obtained a Ph.D. in 1994. In 2000–2001, during the presidency of Ricardo Lagos, Tohá served as Undersecretary Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodrigo Peñailillo
Rodrigo Julián Peñailillo Briceño (Concepción, born 12 December 1973) is a former Minister of the Interior of Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a .... References External linksMinister of the Interior and Public Security - Gobierno de Chile 1973 births Chilean Ministers of the Interior People from Concepción, Chile Living people Chilean people of Spanish descent Party for Democracy (Chile) politicians {{Chile-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovino Novoa
Jovino Novoa (31 March 1945 – 1 June 2021) was a Chilean politician. He was a member of the Senate of Chile (1998–2014) and was the president of the Senate of Chile (2009–2010). He served as General Undersecretary of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship from 1979 to 1982. Unlike many others in his party, the Independent Democratic Union, Novoa was not religious and considered himself agnostic, and at times he voiced support several pro-choice positions. Likewise, within the UDI he achieved to establish the dominance of his liberal-conservative faction, which coexisted with Pablo Longueira's social-conservative current. This last one had as its characteristic the political work in poor sectors, whereas Novoa's faction was concentrated in the relation with businessmen, the empowerment of think tanks like Libertad y Desarrollo (LyD) or the training of then young or students' leaders from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) like Jaime Bellolio or Javier Macaya. In 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Longueira
Juan Pablo Longueira Montes (born August 12, 1958) is a Chilean right-wing politician and industrial civil engineer who served as Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile from 2011 to 2013. He was a founding member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) being very close to Jaime Guzmán. Within the UDI he led the social-conservative camp, which coexisted with Jovino Novoa's liberal-conservative faction. The faction led by Longueira was characterised by its political work in poor sectors. During the 1980s he earned a reputation of a boots on the ground politician who aided shanty town dwellers. Longueira served as a Senator before being appointed by President Sebastián Piñera to serve in the Cabinet. He was previously a deputy from 1990 until 2006. Following a retirement from politics since his aborted presidential candidacy in 2013 in 2020 Longueira announced his return to politics. His comeback has so far been marked by failed bids to the UDI presidency and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Orpis
Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and in Catalonia it became ''Jaume''. In western Spain Jacobus became ''Iago''; in Portugal it became ''Tiago''. The name '' Saint James'' developed in Spanish to ''Santiago'', in Portuguese to ''São Tiago''. The names ''Diego'' (Spanish) and '' Diogo'' (Portuguese) are also Iberian versions of ''Jaime''. In the United States, Jaime is used as an independent masculine given name, along with given name James. For females, it remains less popular, not appearing on the top 1,000 U.S. female names for the past 5 years. People * Jaime, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese nobleman of the 15th/16th centuries, the 4th Duke of Braganza * Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (1908–1975), Spanish prince, the second son of Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caso Corpesca
The Corpesca case refers to an investigation and criminal case in Chile that revolves around illicit payments made by the industrial fishing firm Corpesca to at least two politicians, namely Jaime Orpis of the UDI party and Felipe Harboe of the PPD party. The objective of these payments was to influence votes pertaining to the fishing law known as the Longueira Law. The law, enacted in 2012, resulted in the allocation of a significant portion of Chile's fishing quota to companies controlled by no more than seven families, with the provision that these fishing rights would be inherited indefinitely by their heirs. The case primarily focuses on the influence exerted during the distribution of fishing quotas under the Longueira law. In Chile, a small number of industrial fishing companies possess the largest quotas for fishing specific species such as ''Merluccius australis'', Chilean jack mackerel, and anchovies. The Corpesca case specifically investigates the payments made to manipu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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