Bank Rigged for Pinochet

Managers at Riggs Bank in the US helped former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet evade efforts to freeze his bank accounts, aided him in setting up phoney offshore companies and hid his accounts from federal examiners, senate investigators say in a new report.

Investigators also discovered large payments made by oil companies doing business in Equatorial Guinea, including big US companies, to officials of that country and their relatives and to firms they control.