Wemba on French smuggling charge
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Congolese singer Papa Wemba is to appear before a French court on people smuggling charges.
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A London solicitor is charged with immigration offences.
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A Colombian arms broker was charged with trying to buy &#36;4 million in grenade launchers, machine guns, other high-powered weapons and munitions for a leftist rebel group and promising 2 tons of cocaine as partial payment.
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French magistrates charged a third person in connection with a dirty tricks scandal that has become known as the Clearstream affair, just two weeks before Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was due to testify in the case.
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French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, whose unauthorised deals at Societe Generale cost the bank billions of euros, was taken into custody Friday after a court hearing in Paris, his lawyer said.
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The French bank SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said that it had uncovered âan exceptional fraudâ by a trader that would cost it about $7.1 billion.
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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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A Chadian judge late Monday laid kidnapping and complicity charges against 16 Europeans held over a charity's attempt to fly more than 100 children to France, the prosecutor's office in the eastern town of Abeche told AFP.
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Congolese world music star Papa Wemba  admitted in a French court on Monday he had taken part in a  scam to smuggle hundreds of Africans into France using his band  as a cover.
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Business & money: French desperate to keep bank out of foreign hands
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said that the fraud had been committed by a trader in charge of hedging on European index futures.
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Police on Saturday questioned the young trader blamed for a massive fraud that cost France's Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion, as the country's president accused global financial institutions of having "gone haywire" and urged common sense.
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A junior trader blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at French bank Societe Generale has handed himself into the police and is cooperating with their investigation, a prosecution official said on Saturday.
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Antoine Borg, 23, of St Andrew's, was yesterday charged with trafficking people in or out of Malta.
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French bank Societe Generale described Sunday how one of its traders allegedly carried out a $7.2 billion (&#8364;4.9 billion) fraud, how the loss came to light and what it is doing to ensure such a case does not recur.
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A British man extradited from Morocco is charged in connection with the Â£53m Securitas robbery.
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The man at the center of a trading scandal at Societe Generale said that his activities could not have gone undetected by the French bank.