French court places trader in detention
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A Paris court sent French trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars Friday, while the investigation into billions of euros (dollars) of losses he allegedly caused for bank Societe Generale took a new twist with a second employee taken into custody.
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A Paris court on Friday ordered French trader Jerome Kerviel to be jailed while investigations continue into massive losses at bank Societe Generale.
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French police widened an investigation into a trading scandal at Societe Generale  as a court prepared to rule on Friday whether Jerome Kerviel, the trader blamed for huge losses, should be held in custody.
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A suspected member of the Basque separatist group, Eta, has been detained in northern Spain, officials say.
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One of North Africa's most wanted  Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32  European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in  Algeria, authorities said on Thursday.
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French police search the apartment of Jerome Kerviel, the man said to be the rogue trader who lost 4.9bn euros.
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A Polish court has released a young Frenchman arrested on terror charges while taking photos of a gas plant.
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French police on Friday questioned a share broker over links to rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, whose 4.8 billion euro (7.1 billion dollar) losses nearly brought Societe Generale bank to its knees, justice officials said.
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PARIS, Jan. 29 -- The 31-year-old trader accused of causing $7.1 billion in losses at France's Societe Generale bank told police investigators that his financial deals were so big that his bosses had to know about them, according to transcripts published Tuesday on two French Web sites.
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Investigators were expected to question the trader in connection with a massive fraud at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
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The chairman of on-line gambling website Sportingbet has been detained by authorities in the United States, the company announced, leading to a suspension of trading of its shares in London.
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French police on Saturday questioned a junior trader blamed for a $7 billion loss at Societe Generale after keeping his superiors in the dark for months about thousands of illicit deals.
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Four suspected Basque separatists, including a key bomb-maker, are held in France, Spanish officials say.
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Societe Generale was warned about alleged rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last year, a prosecutor says.
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PARIS, Feb. 8 -- A French futures trader was jailed Friday while investigations continued into the billions of dollars in losses he is accused of causing at Societe Generale bank.
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The government says it will free an Algerian terror suspect held for more than two and half years under tough laws brought in following the September 11 attacks, after saying it can no longer justify holding the man.
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The leader of a Congolese militia charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity was taken into custody at the International Criminal Court on Thursday, court officials said.