Julio Ponce Lerou is a Chilean billionaire who is the principal shareholder of Soquimich. He is a former

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Retrieved 29 September 2009. Until 1982 he was president of Chilean state-owned forestry company

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while he was simultaneously president of CELCO, a wood pulp company. Ponce is currently accused of a millionaire fraud and embezzlement that affects the pension funds of millions of Chilean citizens under what is known as the "Cascadas" case. In his youth, he attended the

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, where studied medicine for a year. Then, he finished his Bachelor of Arts at the

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