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Pinochet Wife and Son Arrested

HeadlineAug 11, 2005

Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s wife and younger son were arrested Wednesday and charged as accomplices in a tax evasion case linked to an investigation into the former dictator’s multimillion dollar fortune overseas. The case is one of several against Pinochet. Most recently, he was charged in the 1975 killing of dissidents in a case known as Operation Colombo.

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