UK banking link to fraud by Pinochet

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The Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations, which quotes this correspondent's revelations in The Observer in December 2000 about Pinochet and the narcotics trade, is scathing about the regulation of Riggs in Britain and the US.

It reports that it 'opened at least six accounts and issued several certificates of deposit (CDs) for Augusto Pinochet, former President of Chile, while he was under house arrest in the United Kingdom and his assets were the subject of court proceedings ... altered the names of his personal accounts to disguise their ownership; transferred $1.6m from London to the United States while Pinochet was in detention and the subject of a court order to attach his bank accounts... and delivered over $1.9m in cashiers' checks to Pinochet in Chile to enable him to obtain substantial cash payments from banks in that country.'

In 1996 and 1998, the sub-committee said, Riggs helped Pinochet set up two offshore shell corporations in the Bahamas, Ashburton Company and Althorp Investment. Neither company had any employees or offices, but were listed as the nominal owners of Riggs's bank accounts and certificates of deposit that benefited Pinochet and his family.

The former dictator had up to $8m in Riggs accounts, though his pay as head of the army in 1998 was a mere $10,057 a year.

more
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pinochet/Story/0,11993,1268738,00.html

[kikiek]

1. Things that make you want to scream. No one is watching.

[Joanne98]

2. Riggs/ Pinochet it fiqures

The more things change/ the more they stay the same.........

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3. PINOCHET CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is facing charges over secret multi-million-dollar US bank accounts

While Pinochet has allegedly breached human rights, this is the first time charges of corruption have been levelled against him.

The charges were laid by Chilean lawyers Carmen Hertz and Alfonso Insunza after a US congressional investigation found that Washington, DC's Riggs Bank had ignored banking regulations to launder money between 1994 and 2002.
The accounts held between four million and eight million US dollars.

"Chilean justice must investigate however many crimes Pinochet has committed," Mrs Hertz said, after entering the charges at Santiago's Court of Appeals.

"I have no prior indications to establish the origin of these accounts, nor of the funds that were deposited in those accounts," lawyer Pablo Rodriguez admitted, after meeting other members of Pinochet's defence team.
more
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=89823®ion=4

more
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=699610

[Octafish]

5. Peter Kornbluh: "Pinochet Declassified"

Heck of a read:

Chile Declassified

by Peter Kornbluh
The Nation, July 22, 1999

On September 28, 1973, seventeen days after the bloody coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power, two Chilean military officers approached the US Embassy with a request: The new regime required "advisor assistance from a person qualified in establishing a detention center for detainees which they anticipate will be retained over a relatively long period of time."

In a secret cable to Washington, Ambassador Nathaniel Davis noted that detailing a US adviser to assist the protracted imprisonment of civilians--more than 13,500 people had been detained for the crime of supporting the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende--"provides obvious political problems." However, he recommended, the State Department might "consider feasibility of material assistance in form of tents, blankets, etc. which need not be publicly and specifically earmarked for prisoners."

This cable was among some 5,800 US documents, many of them recording Washington's casual attitude toward the repression after the coup, declassified by the Clinton Administration on June 30 in response to pressure from Congress, Pinochet's victims and human rights groups. Totaling over 20,000 pages, the release, "Human Rights in Chile--Tranche One," is the first of several on the long-hidden history of the United States and Chile.

The documents, the work of the special "Chile Declassification Project," constitute the first US government policy statement--however indirect--on Pinochet's fate. Detained last October in London, the 83-year-old former dictator remains under house arrest pending hearings on extradition to Spain. Pressed to abandon its "neutral" posture on Pinochet's prosecution for crimes against humanity, the Administration has decided, says one White House aide, to "declassify what we can so that we can say we did our share" (see Kornbluh, "Prisoner Pinochet," December 21, 1998).

CONTINUED...

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=19990809&s=kornbluh

Images of Pinochet with presidents Peanut, Papa Doc Bushler and Jerry Helmet (sorry I can't find them in a post-able form):

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Keep/1963/fotoshistoricas.htm

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6. Thanks buddy. Here's a couple of friends just hanging out

http://www.gazette.de/Archiv/Gazette-Juli2001/Farias.html


:hi:

[Octafish]

8. They look so...so... so Aryan.

This Riggs business should be no surprise. The BFEE Octopus counts on the NAZIs for lots of things: plunder, murder, world domination, the "Vision Thing."

What's behind the Bush-Pinochet friendship?

by SARAH ANDERSON AND SAUL LANDAU

Former President George Bush is acting strangely these days, as if he may have something to hide.

SNIP...

On April 26 Michael Dannenaher, Bush's chief of staff, told us that he, not Bush, had written said letter and that he would not provide a copy. We then turned to House International Relations Committee member Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., who also requested a copy. Her aide told us that Dannenaher gave him a different story: that no letter had been written. Lamont insists he received a letter from Bush but has yet to comply with McKinney's request for a copy.

Bush's behavior raises questions about his relationship to Pinochet, whose 17-year regime executed more than 3,190 people. The CIA backed Pinochet's rise to power in a bloody 1973 coup. Three years later Bush, as head of the CIA, had access to information that Pinochet headed Operation Condor, an international network of secret-police agencies established to eliminate dissidents. CIA officials knew, for example, that Chile had sent agents to Argentina and Italy to assassinate prominent exiled opponents. The CIA also knew Pinochet's method for foreign killings because it and the FBI collaborated in some phases of the Condor operations.

Nevertheless, Bush and other CIA officials reacted like tortoises when a top-secret cable arrived in June 1976 from U. S. Ambassador to Paraguay George Landau (no relation to author Saul Landau). The cable advised CIA Deputy Director General Vernon Walters that Landau had authorized U. S. visas for two of Chile's covert agents, who were using phony Paraguayan passports, to visit Washington. Walters was absent, so according to CIA protocol, only Bush could have signed for the cable. Landau received no response to his urgent alert.

Pinochet's secret-police chief aborted that mission, then quickly
rescheduled it. Two months later, two other Chilean agents under the same aliases obtained U. S. visas in Santiago. Upon their arrival, U. S. immigration officials informed the CIA, but the CIA apparently made no response. To Pinochet, this may have been an indication that the coast was clear to hit his target: Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador to the United States.

CONTINUED TREASON...

http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/99sa/What's_Behind_the_Bush-Pinochet_Friendship_

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10. "They Dance Alone"

Why are there women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is that they dispise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

It's the only form of protest they're allowed
I've seen their silent faces scream so loud
If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too
Another woman on a torture table what else can they do
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone They dance alone

One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance
One day we'll dance on their graves
One day we'll sing our freedom
One day we'll laugh in our joy
And we'll dance

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos
Ellas danzan con los muertos
Ellas danzan con amores invisibles
Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia
Danzan con sus pardres
Danzan con sus hijos
Danzan con sus esposos
Ellas danzan solas
Danzan solas

Hey Mr. Pinochet
You've sown a bitter crop
It's foreign money that supports you
One day the money's going to stop
No wages for your torturers
No budget for your guns
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
They're anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone
They dance alone

sting

[Octafish]

11. If they can arrest Pinochet, we can bust Poppy!

Here's a nice place for a prosecution to start:

Clouds Over George Bush

by Robert Parry

iF magazine, January / February 1999

EXCERPT...

That evening at a dinner at the Jordanian Embassy, Rep. James Abourezk was distraught. Letelier had been a personal friend, and his violent death in the heart of Washington was weighing heavily on Abourezk's mind

In the room, the congressman spotted the gangly, preppy figure of George Bush, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Abourezk thought he might enlist Bush's help in solving the murder.

Given Letelier's status as an ascerbic critic of Chile's military dictatorship, there already were suspicions that agents of Gen. Augusto Pinochet had planted the bomb.

Abourezk button-holed the CIA director and asked Bush to commit the CIA to the search "to find the bastards who killed" Letelier. Abourezk recalled that Bush looked concerned and responded, "I'll see what I can do. We are not without assets in Chile."

The problem with Bush's promise, however, was that some of the ClA's top "assets" in Chile were implicated in the murder.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/CloudsOverGeorgeBush.html

[Octafish]

4. Papa Doc Bush LOVED Pinochet, as he did any other TERRORIST.

Heck, Poppy even covered up two MURDERs for a dictator, killings that happened in Washington, D.C. and took the lives of a Chilean diplomat and an American citizen. How can this man not love a fellow killer like Pinochet, or his son love bin Laden?



Orlando Letelier

from the book

The CIAs Greatest Hits

by Mark Zepezauer

"Are you the wife of Orlando Letelier?" asked the anonymous caller. "Yes," she answered. "No," the caller said, ~ you are his widow."

A week later, on September 21, 1976, the exiled Chilean diplomat and prominent critic of the CIA-backed Pinochet regime was torn to pieces by a car bomb on the streets of Washington DC. Also killed was Letelier's American aide, Ronni Moffit. Her husband, blown clear of the car, immediately began shouting that Chilean fascists were responsible for the atrocity.

He was right, but those fascists had powerful allies in Washington. An FBI informant knew of the plot to assassinate Letelier before the fact but the FBI did nothing to protect him. After the bombing, CIA Director George Bush told the FBI that there'd been no Chilean involvement whatever. The CIA was certain of this, he said, because it had many reliable sources inside the Chilean secret police, DINA.

Actually, the CIA had known that a DINA hit squad was in the US and headed for Washington. After the bombing, the agency purged its files of photos of the assassins. The CIA and DINA then began planting stories in the press suggesting that Letelier had been killed by leftists seeking to make a martyr of him.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Letelier_CIAHits.html

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7. Thatcher was all over the guy!

El papa Juan Pablo II y el general Pinochet durante una visita de aquél a Chile en abril de 1987.

El general Pinochet, reunido con la junta militar golpista, el 20 de septiembre de 1973, días después del triunfo del golpe

La policía chilena custodia ocho bolsas con cuerpos encontrados en Serena (Chile) supuestamente pertenecientes a un grupo de 15 izquierdistas desaparecidos durante el mandato del general Pinochet.

http://www.terra.es/pinochet/fotos/derech.htm

[Octafish]

9. "A group of 15 disappeared leftists." Human beings in garbage bags.

Not a monster, but a NAZI.



United in the fight against Communism.

http://www.reforcofederal.hpg.ig.com.br/pg_hist_dita.htm

How's your Portugese?

[seemslikeadream]

12. Here ya go!

It was everything truth Documents they reveal that American they did coarse sight to the crimes of the dictatorships of the South Cone

Kátia Mello

Henry Kissinger and the general Augusto Pinochet, united in the battle to the communist subversion at least, of arms crossed. That the posture of the government of the United States before the horror went of the crimes of torture, of the sequestros and of the skimpy executions of around 30 thousand persons during the last dictatorship soldier from the Argentina (1976-1983). More worse: the American embassy in Buenos It had information of first hand about each pace of the opositores to the dictatorial regimens in the America Latin and nothing fez for stop that they fell in the grips of his algozes. “The United States promoted the terrorism of State in latin-american countries, in the decades of 70 and 80 for maintain the hegemony in the region”, declared the architect and Argentine sculptor Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Prize Nobel from the Peace of 1980. Nothing of that is news, alone that now the tests they were liberated by the American Department of State. Barely three decades afterwards, 4.677 telegrams and letters confirm was what a secret of polichinelo, with details of as the regimens soldier of the South Cone installed its machines of kill and they cooperated between itself através from the Operation Condor – that united the dictatorships from the Argentina, of Brazil, from the Bolivia, of the Chile, of the Paraguay and of the Uruguay, for, in assembly, raise and coordinate information.

The papers also reveal the operations of the big multinational with the Washington in the support the violations from the legality, as the case of the Argentine general went Jorge Videla, that assumed the power with a coup d'etat in March of 1976. “We were not accused of be behind this strike and the embassy (American in Buenos To) wait that continues being like this (...) It would not be good neither for them neither for us. There is does not doubt of that the best interests for the Argentina and for us mesmos they are in the success of this I govern moderated (sic) that now follows ahead with the general Videla (...) He promised he resolve us fast our problems of inversões”, he relates the signed document by the companies Exxon, Chase Manhattan, Standard Electric and other companies. In another I document of 1977, the Argentine former president Fernando of I Read Rúa, had like critic from the violation of the right humans, he is tried by the Americans as a “cynical” by he be “the most most open defender from the military junta”.

The liberation of the papers, some of them to manuscripts, they were negotiated during the government of Bill Clinton to request of the relative of him disappeared. In August of 2000, faced with the Mothers from the Plaza of May, to then secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, compromised liberate it the documents and to send-the to Buenos To.

In the texts, there are references of by the less three Brazilians that were prisoners in Buenos To: Maria Regina Marcondes I Paint, sent from the Argentina for the Chile; Paulo Antonio of Paranaguá, son of the then Brazilian ambassador in the Kuait, and theirs woman, Maria Regina Jacob Pilla.

But the revelation more important for Brazil is a telegram of 20 of August of 1976, in which stayed clear the cooperation between the Brazilian dictatorships and Argentina. In that telegram, that had some widespread stretches in 1999, the then American secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, admits: “A dependable Brazilian spring described an agreement Brazil-Argentina, second which the two countries hunt and they eliminate terrorists that they try flee from the Argentina for Brazil. Military units Brazilians and Argentinas already they would have operated jointly and inside the borders of another (country) when necessary.” So far, the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón (the even of the trial of the Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet) did not obtain interrogate Henry Kissinger and is little probable that obtain him. The Nobel Argentine Esquivel affirmed that barely breaks of the American documents was divulged. The that implicariam straightly the U.S.A. in the “war soils” they will continue well guarded.

Spring: This is

[Octafish]

15. You know. I talk like that.

"Huh? Whuddayizid? Everything on Black 17. Issmymoneeuh..."



“There’s no way a General can accumulate that money”

The current investigation into former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bank accounts is directed preliminarily to discover infringements of tax legislation since the funds deposited in the Riggs Bank of Washington DC were never included in the General’s 1994/98 tax statements, according to Santiago press reports.

Two special magistrates Sergio Muñoz and Juan Guzmán are currently investigating the alleged non declared funds of Mr. Pinochet, a fact that was first revealed by The Washington Post a few weeks ago following an investigation by the US Congress into American banks involved in money laundering.

An internal memorandum from the Riggs Bank, dated September 11, 2002, specifies details of funds transfers at the time when United States federal authorities were checking into Mr. Pinochet bank accounts and movements.

Apparently and according to the memorandum, Mr. Pinochet and wife Mrs. Luica Hiriart Pinochet between August 2000 and April 2002 withdrew 38 checks totaling two million US dollars. Riggs Bank insists the checks were deposited in a Chilean bank.

However the magistrates have warned that it’s the Chilean Internal Taxing Office that must begin judicial actions to determine whether the alleged funds, between 4 and 8 million US dollars deposited in the Riggs Bank were effectively declared.

CONTINUED...

http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=3997

[AP]

13. Wonder if UK will bring crim proceedings vs Riggs bankers who violated

their orders re freezing accounts.

[dArKeR]

14. Investigations into Pinochet unnerve British institutions

The law is finally catching up with General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator. Having for years eluded justice on allegations of torture, murder and international terrorism, he will shortly be facing charges of corruption, tax evasion and the laundering of enormous profits from drug dealing and the privatization of large swaths of the Chilean economy in the 1970s.

The reputation he carefully cultivated for financial probity, which was trumpeted by his many supporters around the world -- from former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger -- faces final demolition.

Revelations from the US Senate's Sub-Committee on Investigations this month about Pinochet's financial dealings will ensure this. They also make extremely unpleasant reading for the UK government, the British judiciary and the Bank of England.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/07/26/2003180534


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16. kick

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