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Yasna Provoste

Yasna Provoste Campillay (born 16 December 1969) is a Chilean teacher and Christian Democrat politician of Diaguita descent, who served as minister during the presidencies of Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet. In 2008, after frauds committed by the civil servant Franka Grez, Provoste began to be questioned by parliamentarians of the then centre-right opposition ―Alianza por Chile— for not having been aware of that omission, that is, the systematic appropriation and concealment which Grez practiced in the four years where she operated (2004−2008). Thus, on 14 April, the Chilean Senate ―by 20 votes over 18― found her guilty of the loss of more than US$ 600 million in the so-called "Subsidies case" (Spanish: Caso Subvenciones), and was disqualified from holdin… more »