Absolute power.U.S. Senate investigators in March disclosed 125 accounts used during a quarter century by former Chilean strongman Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte, his family members and Chilean military officers to move millions of dollars abroad. Much stayed in Miami banks, including Riggs Bank Riggs Bank was a Washington, DC-based commercial bank with branches located in the surrounding metropolitan area and offices around the world. For most of its history, it was the largest bank in the nation's capital. , under aliases as close to the dictator's name as J. Ramon Ugarte and as obscure as "Daniel Lopez." The aging Pinochet's longstanding claim of having retired, incorruptible in·cor·rupt·i·ble adj. 1. Incapable of being morally corrupted. 2. Not subject to corruption or decay. in , on a Chilean general's meager mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. pension is wearing thin. "Dictators don't just kill their political opponents. They always unlawfully enrich themselves, and Pinochet isn't the exception." Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Hertz, human rights lawyer (Bloomberg) "Frankly, this is a hoax by the U.S. Senate." Pablo Rodriguez, Pinochet's lawyer (AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. ) "It's not true that the accounts I managed were linked with President Pinochet's. As far as a I am concerned, that's a lie." Guillermo Garin, retired Chilean army The Chilean Army (Spanish: Ejército de Chile) is the land arm of the Military of Chile. This 45,000-person army (12,700 of which are conscripts)[1] is organized into seven divisions, a special operations brigade and an air brigade. general (AP) "Pinochet never gave me a dime, and I have never deposited anything for him." Jorge Ballerino, retired Chilean army general (AP) "Of the books that you have given me, I am just finishing my reading of The Crucial Day. The factual objectivity with which you tell the story of Chile in the early 1970s is both fascinating and instructive. History provides for fair and proper judgement only when the true facts are know[n]." 1997 letter from Riggs Bank President Timothy C. Coughlin to Pinochet (U.S. Senate subcommittee report) "A trip by senior Riggs executives to Chile and Latin America at this time poses significant risks to Riggs and our client." 2000 Riggs memorandum (U.S. Senate subcommittee report) |
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