Ex-Dictator’s Lawyers Review Secret Accounts
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From Times Wire Reports
Lawyers for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet say they have begun to audit his assets to determine the origin of millions of dollars he kept in secret accounts in Washington-based Riggs Bank.
A Chilean court opened an investigation last week into Pinochet’s finances after a human rights lawyer lodged fraud accusations based on information from a U.S. Senate probe of the bank. The inquiry found that Pinochet accounts held $4 million to $8 million from 1994 to 2002.
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