French ex-PM's office is searched
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French magistrates search  offices formerly used by ex-PM Dominique de Villepin amid claims of a smear campaign.
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French police search the headquarters of Societe Generale, the bank where rogue trading lost huge sums.
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French actor Gerard Depardieu is to be questioned by police investigating fraud claims against a fugitive tycoon.
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French police probe how two illegal immigrants ended up working at a residence used by President Sarkozy.
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Le Pen, Le Cracked A cyber crook has stolen sensitive data from Jean-Marie Le Pen, a far-right contender for president of France. The breach may kill his chances of being able to run for the office.â¦
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Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich's home in Switzerland was searched Wednesday by authorities, along with nine other homes and offices of people suspected of involvement in a Spanish doping scandal.
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French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into whether President Nicolas Sarkozy received a substantial discount when he purchased an apartment in a rich suburb of Paris when he was mayor in 1997, judicial officials said Wednesday.
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British detectives are to fly to the south of France to help track down an English aristocrat who mysteriously disappeared on the French Riviera over three weeks ago, police said.
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Dominic de Villepin says he will be formally investigated over an alleged smear campaign against President Sarkozy.
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"The president's daughter appears to have had no contract with the city, nor to have been paid by it"  Claude Chirac, the daughter of former French president Jacques Chirac, is under investigation over allegations of corruption during her father's tenure as Paris mayor, judicial officials said. via Free Republic
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French prosecutors want Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet tried   over the disappearance of four people.
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Investigating judges plan to file preliminary charges against former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin over a smear scandal targeting Nicolas Sarkozy before he became the French president, Villepin's office said Tuesday.
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PARIS, Dec 14 (IPS) - A suspended prison sentence handed out to former  French prime minister Alain Juppe is one of several corruption  cases plaguing French politics and business.
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Jean-Louis Gergorin, a former EADS executive and ally of the French prime minister, has been placed under judicial investigation over defamation charges, sources close to the case said, amid a growing political scandal.
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French police search the flat of Jerome Kerviel, the man said to be the rogue trader who lost 4.9bn euros.
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France is stepping up its local contacts in Iraq over the mysterious disappearance of a French reporter and her translator in the country, the prime minister said.
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Judicial authorities in southern France opened an official investigation following the mysterious disappearance of an English lord who led a colourful life on the Riviera.