Roberto Dobles

An appeals court called for a new trial against former Environment Minister Roberto Dobles for approving the controversial Infinito Gold mining project.

A San José court on Monday acquitted former Environment and Energy Minister Roberto Dobles Mora of all charges that he illegally granted a contract to a private mining company connected to a relative while he was in office.

A criminal court in San José on Wednesday sentenced former Environment Minister Roberto Dobles Mora to a three-year suspended sentence for breach of public duty in granting the British Columbia-based mining company Infinito Gold an open-pit gold mining concession in Crucitas, in the northern Alajuela canton of San Carlos, in 2008.

Industrias Infinito says it will consider other legal options.

Edgardo Araya says Infinito Gold using campaign of fear to silence critics

Opponents of controversial gold mine denounce alleged corruption, present demands to court.

Ex-judge Moisés Fachler is a lawyer for the gold mining company’s general manager.

Lawmakers grill Attorney General Ana Lorena Brenes on Crucitas.

Costa Rican gold mining company Industrias Infinito, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Infinito Gold, Inc., this week filed an appeal with the Supreme...

Several businesses have experienced backlash, instead of big returns, after investing in Costa Rica.