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French charge Lebanese in Pakistan bribes case
[Dawn] An investigating judge has charged a Lebanese businessman suspected of a role in a bribery scandal surrounding the 1994 sale of French submarines to Pakistain that may have been linked to an attack that killed 15.Ziad Takieddine said he was satisfied with the judicial action since it gives him access to the Sherlocks' file. Civil parties' lawyer Olivier Morice said that preliminary charges of complicity and receiving misappropriated funds were filed against Takieddine. Preliminary charges allow Sherlocks to determine whether the case should proceed. A May 2002 attack in Bloody Karachi killed 11 French naval construction workers and four others. Judicial officials are studying whether the attack was linked to a cutting off of French bribes for armaments contracts. Posted by: Fred 2011-09-15 |
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