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247 – Jackson Widjaja, owner of Paper Excellence, avoids traveling to Canada, the country where his company is based. According to the Canada’s National Observer website, the reason would be that when he sets foot in the territory, he will automatically be summoned to testify before Congress, a place he has been fleeing since he was summoned to provide clarification on the shady corporate structure of Paper Excellence. .

“Our power only applies to Canadian territory and we cannot force you to come to Canada. But when it lands on Canadian soil, the subpoena will become enforceable,” revealed the chairman of the natural resources committee, John Aldag, on the website of Canada’s National Observer.

Invited voluntarily to testify in June, Widjaja sent four executives in his place and never again visited the country, which is the headquarters and where most of Paper’s operations are concentrated. According to the country’s main news channel, CBC, at the time, representatives did not answer the main questions from parliamentarians, who wanted to know whether the company had lied to authorities about its relations with the Sinar Mas group.

The trigger for this call was an investigation carried out by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which discovered that Paper Excellence served as a front for the “greenwashing” of the Sinar Mas group, the conglomerate of the Widjaja family accused by NGOs to deforest more. more than a million hectares of rainforest in Southeast Asia, among other abuses.

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