based Riggs Bank. Those accounts were closed in 2002, but other secret accounts have since surfaced, and the judge investigating Pinochet is also looking at his finances in several different countries. Before the bank accounts scandal came to light, most Chileans thought of Pinochet as clean in financial matters despite his violent repression of political opponents. Riggs Bank pleaded guilty in January to violating money laundering laws, and agreed employees had ignored banking rules by keeping Pinochet's name out of correspondence connected with over $10 million in various accounts for the former strongman. --SP 2342 Local Time 2042 GMT
