Chile Judge Says Pinochet Had False Passports

[Judi Lynn]

Chile Judge Says Pinochet Had False Passports
Fri Jan 7, 2005 03:09 PM ET

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A judge on Friday accused Augusto Pinochet of having false passports, deepening the former Chilean dictator's legal woes three days after he was placed under house arrest in a human rights case.
Sergio Munoz, a special judge who is investigating multimillion-dollar secret accounts that Pinochet, 89, held in the 1990s at Riggs Bank in Washington, made the accusation in a court filing.

The discovery of the Riggs accounts in July last year led to investigations of tax evasion and fraud, on top of the dozens of investigations Pinochet already faces for human rights violations during his 1973-1990 regime.

Munoz, along with a dozen police officers, raided Pinochet's private office in an exclusive area of Santiago on Thursday and interviewed Pinochet employees, seeking false documents and proof the retired general had bank accounts in other countries besides the United States.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7269488

[AlamoDemoc]

1. The only reason why

Augusto Pinochet is still out of jail is what he knows and what could come out of his trial. The CIA and the State department wouldn't allow his trial to go forward. period!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Oh, yeah! If it appears he is getting forced into a trial, he'll contract

the "Yuschenko Disease," no doubt about it. Either that or he'd suddenly join the multitude of Chilean, (and some American "leftist) "disappeareds" who preceeded him in the 1970's.

It would be sheer bliss getting him on a witness stand to start gibbering about all the interesting elements of his US-backed, muderous coup and heavy-handed reign of terror.

Henry Kissinger, our own Republican genius:

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
(commenting on Chile, prior to Augusto Pinochet's U.S.-supported / CIA-facilitated military coup against Chile's democratically-elected socialist President Salvador Allende in 1973)

http://www.palmyra.demon.co.uk/superstition/quotes.htm