Pinochet's Family Arrested

General Pinochet's Family Charged with Embezzlement

© Henry Ramsager

Oct 4, 2007

The family of the late dictator of Chile have been arrested for the misuse of funds.


General Augusto Pinochet's troubles continue, even after dying late last year.

It seems that a Chilean judge has just seen fit to order the arrest of Pinochet's widow and five children on charges of embezzlement.

The family are in possession of hundreds of bank accounts in the US which allegedly contain missing state funds.

General Pinochet ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, and conveniently (for him) died in December, 2006, before he could stand trial on corruption charges and human rights abuses.

Twenty-seven million dollars are missing. However, that is not all that is missing as the result of Pinochet's rule. There also remains the unresolved matter of the 3,000 people still missing from the time Pinochet was in power.


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