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On December 21, 1990, the Registry Civil denounced the loss of 134 passports, beginning a process under the Fifth Criminal Court of Santiago. Two of the identity documents were seized on 18 May of that year in the city of Rome (Italy) to a Chilean Alejandro Ramírez Cáceres. The passports were to be submitted no less than Edgardo Bathiche In the same game of passports, at least four documents were doctored identities extended to Augusto Pinochet, who served for it to open its accounts at Riggs Bank and its subsidiaries established in tax havens.
That same year, President Patricio Aylwin, newly installed in La Moneda, was launched at a crucial mission and appointed as Chief General Research (R) Horacio Toro.
Within days of taking office, Toro received disturbing information: In late 1989, a young Colombian named Jesus Ochoa Galves had settled in the country. The subject was related to the clan Ochoa Vazquez, the lords of the Medellin cartel. His ties with Chile and the company was Bathiche Chile Focus Motors, the only compound which had a helipad approved by the Civil Aviation Authority.
logic mathematical sum indicating a easy to solve. If Ochoa Bathiche Gálvez was a partner and this was related to Marco Antonio, military intelligence would also there claws. In addition, the company and the Colombian was represented by attorney Hector Novoa Vásquez.
Research Suspicions were redoubled in 1992 when Bathiche was arrested at Madrid airport, with Monzer Al-Kassar, at a time when they were about to go to Vienna on a private Lear jet, registration OE GBR. That same plane, owned by the Al-Kassar, was used in 1986 to rescue from Italy to Abu Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist responsible for the hijacking of passenger ship Achille Lauro. " Days later, Judge Baltasar Garzon, in charge of the case, not knowing who was in his hands, ordered release of Chile, who traveled with a Syrian passport in the name of Yamal Bathiche. English judge instead held a Monzer Al-Kassar custody to stand trial for the crimes of forgery, illegal vehicle traffic, illegal possession of weapons and involvement in acts of international terrorism. Years later, after all the witnesses or died under suspicious circumstances or recant, Al-Kassar was acquitted. According to investigators, Monzer Al-Kassar, one of the kingpins of the "Syrian Mafia", he maintained close ties with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the Colombian cartels.
in December 1992 changed the fate of Bathiche radically. The Internal Revenue Service dropped into the offices of Focus engines Chile. On the morning of December 7, a group of inspectors appeared at the offices of the company and sealed all the boxes and furniture containing documentation. The next day, inspectors found that all seals had been violated. Bathiche men had entered the room the night before. The accounting records were missing. In one of the courtyards still smoldering ashes of papers and files. Detectives from the Narcotics Brigade and Economic Crime Investigation found a small arsenal: sawed-off shotguns, war helmets, body armor, pistols, revolvers, ammunition and a pistol Uzi with infrared sight.
On December 9, 1992, Bathiche left the country to Argentina to settle in the palace Mifadil which owns Al-Kassar in Marbella (Spain). Two days later, Jesus Ochoa Galvan, his Colombian partner, ran away with the whole family. Finally, this process ended with fines and sent to prison. Bathiche not return to Chile until the mid-'90s, spent several months in jail and was released on bail.
"All were vicious"
Pinochet, on the other hand, was consistent with the democratic transition. His relations with Aylwin were always tense. Especially when human rights groups began in 1990, the legal offensive against the agents of the dictatorship. The analysis of military intelligence at the time was clear: the shower get wet at all alike.
The former dictator, then cut to the chase. Created the Fourth Department, which was nothing but a group of lawyers, coordinated by the Directorate of Army Intelligence (DINE), defended the military would start the parade by the courts.
But there were soldiers with more complex legal situations. Was the case of former captain CNI agent Luis Arturo Sanhueza Ros. The latter was accused of the murder of businessman Aurelio Gourmet Sichel, as well as the murder of MIR Jecar Neghme spokesman, occurred in September 1989. It was then that the former dictator ordered the head of the DINE, Hernán Ramírez Rurange general, to get him out of Chile, according to court's own statements Rurange Ramírez.
But things got worse for Pinochet in June 1991 when the Supreme Court appointed the Minister Adolfo Bañados to substantiate the process Washignton homicide committed in 1976 - former Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier.
same time, the lawyer Jorge Mario Saavedra pressured by other flank for the mastermind behind the murder of Tucapel Jimenez, Major Carlos Jiménez Herrera, will face justice.
designed silent operation, according to former head of the DINE, by Pinochet, also known as "low control" started the second act: Herrera Jimenez was taken also to Argentina and then Uruguay in the special unit of the DINE led by the head of Pinochet's advanced abroad, the largest Valdés Arturo Silva, known as "The Prince." Bathed
Minister had quoted former DINA chemist Eugenio Berrios to testify in the Letelier case. Alarms military intelligence lit up immediately. Berrios worked for DINA, precisely in the house that the agency had in the Street Orange Lo Curro, with Michael Townley.
Berrios
The situation was extremely complex, which also could lead to Andrea about the project: the creation of sarin, botulinum toxin, among other poisons used to kill opponents of the regime. Project Manager Andrea, after Townley was sent to the U.S., was the then Major Gerardo Huber.
But the chemical also kept another secret: links to drug trafficking, with Peruvian former military intelligence agents, lenders and Chilean military.
court statements of one of the traffickers connected to the chemical, military and police are revealing. This is the Peruvian Fair Hualpa Cornejo, whose plot had Pirque modern security systems, guards and ties with the former CNI. The latter gave a version that sheds light on why the Chilean military intelligence protected chemical former DINA and then killed him before the former dictator will travel to Uruguay in February 1993.
"My farm was Chilean high society, politicians, soldiers, congressmen, even the sons and nephews of Pinochet ever saw them. All were vicious, they were all friends, "said Cornejo Hualpa.
And so Berrios was taken from Chile in October 1991 to Uruguay, through the passage Monte Aymond of Punta Arenas. He remained there until November 1992, the last time he was seen alive. Berrios
belonged to a powerful cocaine trafficking network that supplied drugs to Australia and Europe. More than once met in Argentina and Montevideo drug with its partners, all while under the strict care of the Chilean and Uruguayan military intelligence. The Mysterious Colonel
In the early '90s, the drug was mixed with high society in Viña del Mar. The businessman Manuel Losada smuggled Colombian drug cartels. As recounted in a note NLD on 7 May, the representative of the Cali cartel and after Medellin, Carlos Zuluaga, had two important contacts, to carry the drugs out of Chile to bring from Europe Colombian drug money. The cocaine was distributed in Africa by the Cosa Nostra, Bernardo Provenzano led then.
The first was a military intelligence colonel, the second a well-known Chilean industry. In 1998, Losada eventually arrested in connection with Operation Ocean. Years before Zuluaga also fell.
They brought the cocaine from Mendoza to redesigning in Caleta Abarca, Vina del Mar, where transformed into liquid. In 1991, as Zuluaga confessions, out of 150 kilos of alkaloid Chile to the United States in 360 bottles of wine from the vineyard Manquehue, although this firm had some responsibility. And just in Caleta Abarca lived a Peruvian expert on liquefied cocaine. Max is Isidro Bocanegra Guevara, former Peruvian military intelligence agent who was part of the criminal organization that integrated Berrios. The Peruvian was arrested in June 2001 by police OS-7, specifically by a laboratory of its kind.
A Missing Link In December 1991, a Chilean arms shipment was discovered in Budapest (Hungary), labeled as humanitarian aid. The Duck Wedding named Gerardo Huber Olivares, Army colonel and head of the Department of Foreign Acquisitions in the Logistics Directorate. Berrios had been head of the project during the years Andrea and responsible for the Army Chemical Plant in Talagante.
The operation, however, had begun in April of that year with the arrival to Chile of two characters: the former British spy Sydney Edwards and the Nazi Croatian Vladimir Secen. Both played different roles for the same purpose: to arm the Nazi Croats against the Serbs. Secen be bound by the press in Argentina with the military intelligence services in Chile. In early 1992, Monzer Al-Kassar, who also trafficked arms to Croatia, traveled twice to Chile.
Due to the scandal which led to the discovery in Eastern Europe, the Chilean appointed Justice Minister in visit to Hernán Correa de la Cerda to pursue the case. One of the first steps that made the judge was questioning Huber. The latter has pleaded not guilty, but unlike the rest of those involved said they should ask the general details Florencio Yew, then chief of army ordnance. That fact alone alerted military intelligence and Huber was removed with a medical leave for stress.
took refuge in the Maipo Valley, home of his friend Elwin Tapia. He remained there until January 29, 1992, but not before burning a series of documents implicating the high institutional control period. That same day he disappeared without trace until 20 February when his body was found in the Maipo river bed with a gunshot to the head.
Over the years, several pieces have been joined. In July 2004, the U.S. Senate gave the report on money laundering activities of various dictators, including Augusto Pinochet. There appeared for the first time his fortune in the U.S. Riggs Bank and other financial institutions in Europe and tax havens. Until now, the figure reaches nearly 30 million dollars.
Gradually, the pot has been uncovered. For example, the death of chemist Eugenio Berrios DINA. This murder not only was politically motivated, but also Berrios had direct knowledge of the illicit activities of Pinochet's inner circle. Apparently, Huber declined to be drawn from Chile. Why killed? What did he know?
[Source: La Nacion, Santiago de Chile, 21may06]
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