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The Government strongly condemns the collusion of the "Cartel del fuego" (19459003), composed of the companies Faasa Chile Servicios Aéreos and Martínez Ridao Chile denounced by the Office of the National Economic Prosecutor (FNE) before the Tribunal for the Defense of Free Competition (TDLC).
In the opinion of the FNE, the above-mentioned companies have entered into and executed "an anti-competitive agreement to prevent, restrict or hinder competition in the market for the fight against and the extinction of fires. of forest by the intermediary of tankers on the national territory during the years 2009 and 2015. "
The government declared that the antecedents are of the greatest gravity and that it is urgent the Modernization of the National Forest Corporation (Conaf) precisely when an initiative to transform Conaf into a public service is being processed in Parliament.
The Minister of the Economy, José Ramón Valente, was categorical and described the companies' actions as harmful because they could have affected the flames and reached larger extensions and put them in danger human lives. [19659005] https://media.biobiochile.cl/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cartel-1.mp3
Bernardo Larraín Matte, President of the Corporation for the Development of Manufacturing (Sofofa), has also had condemnatory words against the so-called "fire cartel", and noted that such actions break confidence in the business sector.
The former director of the National Forest Corporation, Eduardo Vial, in conversation with Expreso Bío Bío, said that these companies not only plotted in Chile, but that it was 39 is a recurring behavior. [19659009] https://media.biobiochile.cl/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cartel-3.mp3
The Conaf, through a statement stated that all contracts are concluded under the Law on Public Procurement with companies registered in the official register of suppliers and authorized to sign contracts with the State.
With this, he pointed out that has provided all the information required by the FNE, in addition to badyzing any legal actions taking into account the seriousness of the events and damages suffered by the institution .
The requirement before the Court of Defense of free competition requires a fine of 3,000 fiscal annual units, equivalent to 2.6 million US dollars, while in the case of Martínez Ridao, it is necessary to 39, about 4,000 annual tax units, it is say, US $ 3.5 million.
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