Vicente Bengoa Aranguiz, the son of the former Minister of Hacienda and general manager of BanReservas, the governmental commercial bank, was robbed at gunpoint on Saturday, 8 March. The incident took place as he was entering the building where his father Vicente Bengoa Albizu lives, at Calle Pio X, Urbanizacion Real, just a few meters from the Armed Forces Military Intelligence Department.
In a press release, the victim, Vicente Bengoa Aranguiz, producer of the Channel 19 (Cinevision) program Economia y Politica said he was followed after he withdrew money from a bank. He was asked to hand over an envelope with the money he had withdrawn from the bank.
This is not the first time that a Bengoa family member has been a victim of armed robbery. A similar thing happened to one of his sisters, Maria Jose, at Av. Privada near 27 de Febrero, not far from where her brother was robbed.
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