SANTIAGO, Sept. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- The Chilean authorities have received background information on the accounts of former dictator Augusto Pinochet in the United States, local reports said Friday.

    The documents were handed over by the US authorities to the Chilean government, which sent them to the anti-money-laundering brigade of the investigative police (Brilac), working with judge Sergio Munoz on the investigation.

    A judicial spokesman said that the investigations on the Pinochet accounts in US Riggs Bank, will continue, although the Internal Tax Service has not taken judicial actions.

    A US Senate committee found that Riggs Bank, based in Washington, had up to $8 million in secret accounts in Pinochet's name between 1994 and 2002.

    Attorneys Carmen Hertz and Alfonso Isunze prepare to file charges against Pinochet for fraud by the end of the month.

    However, Marco Antonio Pinochet, one of Pinochet's children, said that "the money my father had was the result of his savings, it was the result of donations and, undoubtedly, it was also the result of profits from these investments."

    Pinochet, who took control of Chile by ousting constitutional President Salvador Allende in 1973 and ruled the country to 1990, faces hundreds of charges of homicide, kidnapping and torture.

    He was arrested in London in 1998 at the extradition request of Spain to face four genocide charges, but Britain eventually allowed him to return to Chile 17 months later on grounds of poor health. Enditem