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A bank pays for the Victims of Pinochet


1/3/2005


Noha Ahmed from Sam Khosiet
     Sam Mapovon the Lawyer of the Victims of the Chilean dictator Augusta Pinochet Announced that the American Bank "REX" confessed that it hid some secret bank accounts for Pinochet and will pay 9 millions Dollars for his victims. The Salvador Alindy Institution in Madrid will be responsible for running the financial compensations and distributing them on the tortured and the families of murdered and disappeared people.

     These financial compensations are the result of long negotiations began on 1996 after raising suitcases against the Bank. The Spanish legislative authorities headed by Judge Peltsar Grison who put an end for these cases against the gig American financial institution.

     According to the deal the Bank will pay 8 millions Dollars for the victims and one million for the Lawyer. The dictator had been transferred 600 thousands dollars to the bank despite of international decision of freezing his money and the bank accepted it .Of course the bank was aware of the law suite cases against Pinochet.

     Source Elaph site :
http://www.elaph.com/Politics/2005/2/44185.htm

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