translated from Spanish: Comptroller ruled out irregularities on the journey of Piñera’s sons to China

Through a report, the Comptroller General of the Republic did not comment on the journey of the Children of Sebastián Piñera to China. The request was entered by parliamentarians of the opposition, who asked to analyze the alleged existence of a “conflict of interest”, after the participation of Cristóbal and Sebastián Piñera Morel in a meeting with entrepreneurs. According to the Mercury, the document signed by the Comptroller Jorge Bermúdez, says that “the incorporation of members of the family of the President of the Republic to the delegation that accompanied him in the visit was made according to a custom that , at that time, it did not have a specific regulation that would allow it to be contrasted with the factual situation in analysis, “the report says. Thus, in the absence of a legal standard regulating the involvement of the family of the presidents in travel, lack of probity is ruled out. In this sense, the Comptroller states that “the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently regulated the conformation of presidential committees through the Protocol of International Tours of the President of the Republic, which was not in force to the Time of the visit analyzed. ”

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