Former senator Jamie Orpis told a Chilean court that allegations that received bribes from fishing company Corpesca in order to pass a new fishing law are false, Chile's El Mostrador reported,
Orpis, who among others, has been charged with having received bribes from then Corpesca CEO Francisco Mujica, told Chile's Fourth Court of Guarantee that he believed prosecutors and Chilean tax officials were working "arbitrarily and illegally", the newspaper said.
The 2013 enactment of Chile’s fishing law became a national scandal that still grabs front-page headlines. Corpesca's billionaire owner, Roberto Angelini, testified in early 2018 as part of a criminal investigation that Corpesca as a legal entity had no part in the wrongdoing [...]
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