未亡人の横領 - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

Jonathan Franklin “Pinochet's widow under investigation on suspicion of swindling millions” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/19/pinochet-widow-lucia-hiriart-cema-chile

チリ検察当局はかつてのチリの独裁者アウグスト・ピノチェト *1の未亡人Lucia Hiriart（91歳）を横領容疑で捜査の対象にしている。容疑は、彼女が会長を務めるNGO、CEMAに寄贈されたチリ国有財産を売却して得た資金を、1998年に倫敦で逮捕され*2英国当局によって自宅軟禁状態に置かれていた夫アウグスト・ピノチェトの生活費に流用したというもの。さらに驚いたのは、彼女がそのNGOのトップに就いたのは夫のクーデタに伴ってだが、夫の独裁政権も崩壊し、チリが再度民主化され、さらに夫もとっくに死んでいるにも拘らず、今月に至るまで「終身会長」としてトップに居座り続けていたということだ。

The CEMA Chile foundation was founded in 1954 as a vehicle for charitable works by the country’s first ladies. Hiriart took over following the bloody 1973 military coup that put her husband in power, acting as the group’s president and then president-for-life until she resigned the position last week.
The organisation was originally conceived as a community centre for farm workers, but Hiriart changed the focus to “women’s centers” with a focus on quilting and cake-baking classes. CEMA Chile still has dozens of centers across the country that are run by volunteers, but according to investigators the group has largely become a vehicle to buy, sell and rent properties.

*2:See David Connett, John Hooper and Peter Beaumont “Pinochet arrested in London” https://www.theguardian.com/world/1998/oct/18/pinochet.chile