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Pascua Lama challenged belongings and senior executives would be open to declare Barrick in Chile
Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:02

Local businessman says he has property in the area
Yesterday the North Central Office rejected the request of the employer requesting a warrant against 13 international directors of Barrick.
?Barrick adds a new lawsuit against their binational project Pascua Lama gold (U.S. $ 8,500 million). The legal offensive runs by a person known by the company: the mining investor Lopehandia Jorge Cortes. The latter has had a lot of meetings proceedings against Canadian firm owned by subjects of certain sectors where it is located the complex.

The lawsuit, filed last December 6 at the Office of Santiago Centro Norte, is for alleged falsification of public and / or malicious use regarding mining integration protocol signed between Chile and Argentina in the government of Ricardo Lagos. Lopehandia argues that the protocol would be false, then invoke as the owner of the mining claims that are within the framework of the protocol to Barrick, not the employer, who argues that under the Mining Code of Chile, some belongings there you are. These would Treasury One 1 to 30 and 1 to 5 Twelve Treasury.

Within the research being carried out by the North Central Office, had joined an application Lopehandia lawyer, Juan Torres, who called for an international warrant in order to be submitted to state in this case in Toronto Barrick directors . However, the prosecution yesterday rejected this request, not be at the expense of the investigation is continuing. Sources familiar with the case said that one of the events that prompted the rejection of this request was that "Lopehandia data are weak and if intended, no great legal support."

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Willing to testify?

While Barrick managers will not have to testify in Toronto, yes it could do in Santiago. Sources close to the Canadian miner said that if necessary bring executives from Canada to Chile, will bring, because their interest is declared. In fact, mining has already delivered all belongings history of the prosecution, and in parallel, Lopehandia already said, as Brent Johnson, who is one of the drivers of the Canadian junior MSX, and would have a pre-agreement Lopehandia sale purchase once it is established that the property in question will correspond.
In Barrick's hosts, are confident of their property. "Barrick has all rights necessary for the development of the Pascua Lama mine," said recently the company spokesman, Andy Lloyd, a Canadian mining weekly. These statements, which gave added Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Barrick South America, Rodrigo Jimenez,

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"Trust the Chilean legal system and its courts. In any case such legal action will adversely affect the extraction and processing activities planned by Barrick. We firmly believe that all pending actions involving Mr. Lopehandia and MSX without merit, and that as the Chilean legal system to rule over them, Barrick's position will prevail. " He added that "we do not intend to respond to ongoing continuous bombardment of false, inaccurate and misleading issued by Mr. Lopehandia or MSX. Barrick and will vigorously defend the due course of legal proceedings in Chile. "

?Source DF / Juan Manuel Villagran S.

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