the will of Lucía Hiriart, widow of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), was opened Wednesday after the State Defense Council (CDE) filed a lawsuit against Pinochet’s testamentary heirs for “profiting from someone else’s fraud”.
The proceedings, which took place in private, “are part of a series of actions being carried out by the CDE with the aim of recovering funds diverted by him and his team,” the agency said in a statement.
The company has filed a lawsuit alleging that Pinochet’s heirs were ordered to pay approximately $16 million to the treasury, money the dictator obtained illegally.
“Although this has not been proven [sus herederos] involved in the unlawful acts would benefit from an economic advantage arising from the fully proven criminal conduct,” the CDE said in its statement.
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In 2018, the STF closed the Riggs case after accepting an appeal from the CDE in which justice convicted three of the general’s employees as authors of the crime of misappropriation of public money and allowed a series of lawsuits to recover the defrauded person’s money to get.
“The verdict ordered the confiscation of assets in the name of the former general or one of his companies, mostly offshore and with bearer shares,” the CDE says.
According to the company, despite taking into account the total damages, which amount to nearly $18 million, the Supreme Court ruled that the additional penalty of confiscation could only apply to the part of the assets that were condemned through the company’s intervention .
The court also ruled that “there was more than sufficient conclusive evidence” that Pinochet had “engaged in conduct amounting to the theft of public funds” and given that scenario “it could reasonably be concluded” that the goods could be considered “the effects”. or the result of committing his criminal conduct committed “to the detriment of the treasury,” notes the CDE.
Hiriart was a key figure in Pinochet’s life and exerted the greatest influence on him to participate in the coup insurrection that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende (1970-1973) in September 1973.
With the return of democracy, Hiriart remained at the center of scandals related to his family’s fortunes during the years he held absolute power.
Source: La Neta Neta
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