Ximena Chong

Ximena Loreto Chong Campusano (born 1971) is a Chilean lawyer and prosecutor of mixed Chinese origin. She specializes in tax, money laundering and corruption offenses, and has been involved in investigations regarding political bribes from the Corpesca fishing company, corruption in the National Forest Corporation, prosecution in the murder of Narumi Kurosaki, and involvement of Chilean businessmen in Operation Car Wash.

Biography Ximena Chong Campusano is the daughter of an accountant and a housewife. Her paternal grandfather, Arturo Chong Yueng, was a butcher who arrived in Chile from China in 1935. Ximena Chong said that her father grew up in a traditional Chinese family and her mother in a traditional Chilean family.

She studied law and after graduating as a lawyer she completed a magister in public law at the University of Chile. She then worked for five years as head of the Santiago Centre regional office, before being appointed head of the high-complexity crime unit in the Centre Nord office.