Lucía Hiriart
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María Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez (b. December 10, 1922), also known as Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet, is the widow (married in January 1943) of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Hiriart was born in Antofagasta to Osvaldo Hiriart Corvalán, a lawyer and former Radical Party senator and former Interior Minister of president Juan Antonio Ríos; and Lucía Rodríguez Auda de Hiriart.
In 2005 Hiriart was sued by the Chilean Internal Revenue Service ("Servicio Impuestos Internos") over tax evasion totaling US$2.35 million and was arrested for a full day with son Marco Antonio a few months later. In October 2007, she was arrested again in the frame of the Riggs case, along with Pinochet's five children and 17 other persons (including two generals, one of his ex-lawyer and his ex-secretary) on charges of embezzlement and use of false passports. They are accused of having illegally transferred $27m (£13.2m) to foreign bank accounts during Pinochet's rule.[1][2]
[edit] References
- ^ Pinochet family arrested in Chile, BBC, 4 October 2007 (English)
- ^ Cobertura Especial: Detienen a familia y principales colaboradores de Pinochet, La Tercera, 4 October 2007 (Spanish)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Analysis of her arrest (Spanish)
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