The family of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet could receive €4.2 million in cash and assets frozen during a legal investigation. <br /><br />It follows a decision by a Chilean appeals court to return the money and property seized from the family over a 2004 inquiry into a budget embezzelment affair, known as the Riggs case.<br /><br />A probe was launched after Pinochet’s secret US bank accounts surfaced, but he was exonerated as a former president.<br /><br />The assets to be returned to the heirs of the Chilean ex-dictator who was in power from 1973 to 1990 are 24 properties, three vehicles and seven bank accounts, according to the ruling which could still be contested.<br /><br />More than 3,000 people were killed and some 37,000 others tortured for political reasons during Pinochet’s rule between 1973 and 1990.<br />
