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| | "14th Criminal Court of Santiago. Santiago, August twenty-seventh, 1982. Luis Correa Bulo, visiting minister in this 14th Criminal Court of Santiago, in case 99.971-6 has decreed the apprehension by the Prefecture of Investigations of Santiago of Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (...) for the crime of infringement of articles 25 and 26 of the General Law of Banks and defrauding the Bank of Talca". | | "14th Criminal Court of Santiago. Santiago, August twenty-seventh, 1982. Luis Correa Bulo, visiting minister in this 14th Criminal Court of Santiago, in case 99.971-6 has decreed the apprehension by the Prefecture of Investigations of Santiago of Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (...) for the crime of infringement of articles 25 and 26 of the General Law of Banks and defrauding the Bank of Talca". |
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| − | The order was not complied with because the subject remained at large. Mónica Madariaga, Minister of Justice in the [[Military Government (Chile)|military government]], stating that she received a request from another minister to intercede with Piñera's investigator to prevent him from being arrested. She adds that years later they met on a plane and he thanked her for having kept him out of jail. He even owes that debt to the military government, which he later betrayed. | + | The order was not complied with because the subject remained at large. Mónica Madariaga, Minister of Justice in the [[Military Government (Chile)|Military Government]], stating that she received a request from minister [[José Piñera]], his brother, to intercede with Piñera's investigator to prevent him from being arrested. She adds that years later they met on a plane and he thanked her for having kept him out of jail. He even owes that debt to the military government, which he later betrayed. |
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| | + | Piñera was a 28-day prisoner on the run and was later acquitted by the Supreme Court.<ref name=Townsend>{{cite web|url=https://centroschilenos.blogia.com/2009/072806-sobrino-de-pinochet-asegura-que-madariaga-dice-la-verdad.php|title=Sobrino de Pinochet asegura que Madariaga dice la verdad|date=July 28, 2009|language=es|publisher=La Nación|author=[[Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet]]}}</ref> |
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| | Finally the Supreme Court accepted an appeal in his favor and he was freed from jail, but, according to researcher Carlos Tromben, author of "Crónica Secreta de la Economía Chilena", although the arrest warrant was left without effect, "as confirmed by a note that appeared in 'El Mercurio', the ruling was actually negative for Piñera and Massad". | | Finally the Supreme Court accepted an appeal in his favor and he was freed from jail, but, according to researcher Carlos Tromben, author of "Crónica Secreta de la Economía Chilena", although the arrest warrant was left without effect, "as confirmed by a note that appeared in 'El Mercurio', the ruling was actually negative for Piñera and Massad". |
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| | + | [[Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet]] explains that Mónica Madarriaga didn't interceed in favor or Piñera, but asked that the businessman's case be expedited. "She never intervened for better or worse in favor of anyone. She is an honest, suitable and clear woman, her clarity is of a transparency that anyone would want and I think she deserves all the respect and not the rude way she is being referred to".<ref name=Townsend/> |
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| | He lended money to companies in which he was a partner, to buy shares in the same bank. That is why its main controller once declared to the press: "What that boy wanted was to keep the bank for himself".<ref name=prontuario>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2017/06/el-triunfo-del-prontuario-mas-negro.html|title=El Triunfo del Prontuario Más Negro|language=es|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s Blog|date=4 June 2017}}</ref> | | He lended money to companies in which he was a partner, to buy shares in the same bank. That is why its main controller once declared to the press: "What that boy wanted was to keep the bank for himself".<ref name=prontuario>{{cite web|url=https://blogdehermogenes.blogspot.com/2017/06/el-triunfo-del-prontuario-mas-negro.html|title=El Triunfo del Prontuario Más Negro|language=es|publisher=[[Hermógenes Pérez de Arce]]'s Blog|date=4 June 2017}}</ref> |