The eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, has been sent back to Argentina from the US, just two days after her arrival.
Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, 60, is fleeing tax charges in Chile but was sent back to Argentina as it was the last country she was in before going to the US.
US officials said Ms Pinochet Hiriart had originally requested political asylum in the US, but withdrew that application yesterday.
She has been charged in Chile with tax fraud related to about $1 million in undeclared taxes and falsification of documents in a widening tax evasion and fraud investigation involving the Pinochet family.
Her mother and four siblings were arrested on charges of tax evasion and fraud last week.
Augusto Pinochet, 90, took power in Chile in a 1973 military coup that toppled elected socialist President Salvador Allende. Pinochet has been blamed for the deaths of as many as 3,000 Chileans during his 17-year rule.
He was charged last year with evading taxes on an estimated $27 million hidden in foreign accounts and prosecutors say Pinochet and his family stashed millions of dollars in more than 100 bank accounts outside of Chile.
