[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Pinochet faces tax fraud charges

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:17:45 +0100
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      Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 16:42 GMT  


      Pinochet faces tax fraud charges


     
             
            Two previous efforts to try Gen Pinochet on human right charges 
failed 
      Former Chilean military ruler Gen Augusto Pinochet has been placed under 
house arrest and charged with tax evasion and passport fraud. 
      He is also accused of using forged government documents and misleading 
officials over his assets. 

      The charges relate to $27m (£15.6m) allegedly hidden in secret overseas 
bank accounts under false names. 

      Gen Pinochet, 89, faced charges in two human rights cases in recent 
years, but both collapsed due to his ill health. 

      He was told of the fresh charges while at his home in the Chilean 
capital, Santiago. 

      Judge Carlos Cerda ordered Gen Pinochet's detention after investigations 
into alleged secret funds in Riggs Bank in the US and in other accounts abroad. 

      Bail was set at $23,000 (£13,400). 

      US tip-off 

      The judge decided to bring charges after questioning Gen Pinochet several 
times earlier this month. 

      According to Judge Cerda's indictment, Gen Pinochet evaded $2.4m (£1.4m) 
in taxes between 1980 and 2004. 

      He is also accused of using a selection of forged passports and documents 
to help open more than a hundred bank accounts. 

      The bank accounts were first revealed by a US Senate investigation last 
year. More were discovered during probes by Chilean authorities. 

      Discovery of the cash prompted fresh investigations into whether Gen 
Pinochet made money out of illegal arms sales - a separate issue not included 
in the charges. 

      No immunity 

      Last week prosecutors declared him fit to stand trial after examinations 
by psychiatrists. 

      In October he lost his state immunity against the fraud charges. 

      A month earlier he was stripped of protection in relation to more alleged 
human rights abuses. 

      In Chile, immunity can be lifted only on a case-by-case basis. 

      Gen Pinochet, who will be 90 on Friday, may now also face prosecution by 
some of the families of 119 dissidents allegedly killed, or "disappeared" under 
his regime. 

      More than 3,000 people died in political violence during his 1973-1990 
regime, an official inquiry has concluded. 

     


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