Chile's president says paperwork handed in for probing her son's case

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet Tuesday said her government has handed all pertinent paperwork over to prosecutors investigating her son on corruption charges.

Bachelet's son, Sebastian Davalos, is suspected of influence peddling and misusing privileged information.

The presidential palace of La Moneda "has provided all the elements" the prosecutor's office needs to carry out its investigation, Bachelet told reporters as she arrived at government headquarters earlier in the day.

"Everyone at the prosecutor's office has received the information they required," added Bachelet.

Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo, meanwhile, said "our aim is to cooperate."

Head prosecutor Luis Toledo received the computer and cellphone Davalos used in the past year as director of the presidency's charitable works, an official post from which he was forced to resign after the scandal surfaced.

Davalos helped his wife Natalia Compagnon secure a 13 million-U.S. dollar loan just days before his mother was reelected president, as polls showed she would be. The couple, according to news reports, had no assets to justify the sizable loan.

Davalos and Compagnon used the money to purchase land they then resold to a real estate developer at a 6 million-dollar profit, suggesting they might have been privy to privileged information and used to their benefit. Endi