{"id":590479,"date":"2026-04-07T03:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590479\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:54:07","slug":"accused-pinochet-agent-turned-bondi-nanny-adriana-rivas-to-be-extradited-to-chile-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590479\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused Pinochet agent turned Bondi nanny Adriana Rivas to be extradited to Chile | Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Sydney nanny and cleaner accused by Chile<\/a> of being a torturer and kidnapper for Augusto Pinochet\u2019s military dictatorship in the 1970s will be extradited to Chile to face court over kidnapping allegations after losing her seven-year battle to remain in Australia.<\/p>\n

Adriana Elcira Rivas, now in her 70s, is accused of participating in the disappearances of seven people in 1976<\/a> \u2013 including a woman who was five months pregnant \u2013 while working for Pinochet\u2019s secret police force.<\/p>\n

Rivas emigrated to Australia in 1978 and worked as a nanny in Bondi before she was arrested by New South Wales police in 2019 at the request of the Chilean government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has been in custody for seven years as she resisted attempts to extradite her to the South American nation to face trial for seven counts of aggravated kidnapping.<\/p>\n

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She denies the allegations and has argued that her extradition to Chile should be blocked because it would result in her being tried for crimes against humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the argument that the offences had been mischaracterised was \u201cmisconceived\u201d, Justice Michael Lee told the federal court in Sydney<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe materials do not suggest the offence for which extradition is sought is anything other than the offences identified throughout the request \u2026 namely aggravated kidnapping,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rivas\u2019 contention that the government failed to consider the time limit for prosecuting the kidnapping offences had expired was similarly flawed, the judge determined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe applicant has failed to demonstrate that the minister\u2019s decision was affected by jurisdictional error,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n

The ambassador and consul general of Chile sat in the public gallery as the decision was handed down.<\/p>\n

Families of Chileans who vanished or were killed during Pinochet\u2019s rule had packed the courtroom during the two-day hearing but were not able to be in the court for the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of Chileans came to Australia after the dictator violently overthrew the nation\u2019s elected socialist government in a 1973 coup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About 40,000 people were killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons before the end of his reign in 1990.<\/p>\n

Rivas is accused of playing a role in a national intelligence directorate brigade that physically and psychologically tortured members of the Communist party who opposed Pinochet\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

Adriana Navarro, who represents the families, previously said more than 1,100 Chileans had still not been found.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a very good idea of what happened to them and we think Ms Rivas may do too,\u201d Navarro said outside court during the hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Sydney nanny and cleaner accused by Chile of being a torturer and kidnapper for Augusto Pinochet\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-590479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}