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The Supreme Court of Chile stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution on Thursday.
By a 9-8 vote, the Supreme Court said Pinochet should be stripped of the legal protections he enjoyed as a former president. The ruling came in a case involving 19 dissidents who were slain in the 1970s and ’80s.
Pinochet’s finances came under scrutiny last month after a US Senate investigation into money laundering revealed that he kept accounts at a Washington-based bank and made deposits ranging from $4-$8 million.
On Sunday, a Chilean newspaper reported that investigators had uncovered five more accounts in Pinochet’s name in the US. —(LAT-WP)
