‘Penniless’ Pinochet sells medals to pay expenses

FORMER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been selling some of the medals and diplomatic decorations he received in his political and military career to pay for personal expenses, a Chilean daily newspaper reported yesterday.

Pinochet, 90, is facing economic difficulties because the judge investigating the source of his multi- million pound bank accounts abroad ordered his money frozen, El Mercurio reported.

He has not been able to pay the electricity bill for one of his houses for several months, the paper added.