French prosecutors summon Continental execs in probe
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French prosecutors summoned Continental Airlines&#39; top two executives for questioning in the investigation of the July 2000 crash of a supersonic Air France Concorde, two lawyers said yesterday.
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PARIS Twelve former government officials and senior police officers went on trial in Paris on Monday, charged with running a phone-tapping operation that was used decades ago by FranÃ§ois Mitterrand to keep tabs on the late president&#39;s personal enemies.
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Police searched the Paris headquarters of Airbus parent EADS and one of its main shareholders on Tuesday as part of an insider trading probe, judicial officials said.
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A formal investigation is launched into seven former and current board members at German state-owned bank WestLB.
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NEW YORK - Congressional investigators examining "a semitrailer truck load" of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the U.N. oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press...
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A Paris prosecutor on Monday asked for preliminary charges of forgery, breach of trust and fraud to be filed against a trader accused by Societe Generale bank of causing what could be history's largest trading fraud by a single person.
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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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ABECHE, Chad  - Chad's authorities brought abduction and fraud charges on Tuesday against nine French and seven Spanish nationals it accused of illegally trying to fly 103 African children to Europe.
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Â· Ex-president questioned as immunity comes to endÂ· Party officials said to have been on Paris city payroll
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The European Commission raided  some of the world's largest drugmakers on Wednesday, launching  a broad investigation into whether they made illegal deals or  abused patents to limit competition and harm consumers.
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French investigators have stepped up efforts to find out how a self-effacing dealer at Societe Generale ran up a $7 billion loss that hoodwinked his employers, saying he was not on the run and would soon face questioning.
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Former President Jacques Chirac is likely to be questioned in the coming months over a corruption scandal involving fake jobs created to help fund a conservative political party he headed, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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German prosecutors said Tuesday they received a complaint from regulators against six Citigroup Inc. employees and were considering whether to launch a formal investigation into suspicions of market manipulation.
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French police have detained an executive of Total for questioning as part of an investigation into suspected bribes paid to foreign officials by the oil giant, judicial officials said Thursday.
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Senior French politicians stepped up calls for top managers at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale to resign over a rogue traderâs deals that cost the bank more than $7 billion.
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Police raided the French headquarters of EADS, the company that owns Airbus, as part of a probe into alleged insider trading by top executives of the group, a company source said.
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Dramatic new details of France&#39;s secret dealings with Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime have emerged as part of a fresh corruption investigation into alleged illicit oil deals.