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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4463894.stm
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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