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The mining instance received the Executive Vice President of the Cuprfera and part of the board of directors with the purpose of knowing the procedures adopted after detecting the irregularities linked to the handling of life and accident insurance of Chuquicamata and Radomiro Tomic.Until the Mining Commission of the Chamber of Deputies concurred the Executive Vice President of Codelco Octavio Araneda and part of the states board of directors to explain the actions initiated by the crimes linked to workers life insurance contracts.On the occasion Araneda said Codelco was the victim of a crime and what he is doing now is to pursue all responsibilities. Along these lines Francisca Domnguez Legal Counsel of the state added that it was decided to make the responsibility effective in the criminal civil and labor areas. This because strategies were made to increase the price of insurance premiums there was an economic damage for the victims and a breach of internal regulations in addition to a fraudulent participation of insurance and lack of probity.We are supporting all the investigations that are being carried out in the justice processes Dominguez said. The president of the Commission deputyDaniella Cicardini PS said that what has been here is an irregular situation where Codelco has been late because there were rumors long ago.Clearly this is born from an anonymous complaint where Cochilco is called to generate this investigation but clearly there must also be shared responsibilities especially when it is understood that there is an authorization that the company makes for the tender for life insurance is lifted and this for me has clearly been another antecedent to open an investigative commission reiterated the legislator.DeputySergio Gahona UDI meanwhile stressed the importance of seeking criminal and civil responsibilities and not only thinking about union leaders but also Codelco executives. It seems to us that there cannot be untouchables here the union leaders of Chuquicamata are not untouchables and the executives are not therefore here we must look for all responsibilities by action and omission said the parliamentarian.The deputyPaulina Nez RN said that in these cases it is key to listen to all parties and that with the deputyIssa Kort UDI made endless efforts to ensure that each peso charged to the workers is returned.We met for example with the national director of Sernac because these workers had contracts with insurers therefore based on the Consumer Law the insurer could also self-report and thus send the resources paid to others without having recognized an infraction to the workers he pointed out.The parliamentarian also said that she will meet with the National Prosecutor to ask him to assign a special prosecutor in this case with exclusive dedication because information is being received from workers of private mining companies. Before the end of the session the Commission agreed to ask Codelco for the internal audit carried out by the company in addition to the investigation carried out by Cochilco on the matter.
