Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been charged with several disappearances during his reign over Chile.
Pinochet was placed under house arrest on Wednesday and charged with incomplete reporting of his assets in a case involving an estimated $27 million hid in foreign bank accounts.
He was later charged in connection with seven disappearances that are part of a 1974 human rights case known as Operation Colombo.
Judge Victor Montiglio's ruling said Pinochet should face trial in seven "permanent kidnappings," the term Chile's legal system uses for people who were arrested by state forces and are presumed dead but whose bodies were never found.
Judge Montiglio did not set bail for Pinochet, whose family is planning a 90th birthday party for him at his Santiago home on Friday.
The bank accounts case has moved much more rapidly than previous cases against Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-1990, an era when 3,000 people died in political violence and tens of thousands were tortured or exiled.
Pinochet, who led a 1973 military coup that began his 17-year dictatorship, lost his immunity from prosecution in Operation Colombo in September.