French Judge: ATMs Help Finance Militants
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Radical Islamic cells in Europe are using an ingenious way to finance terror networks that's virtually impossible to trace: withdrawing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from cash machines with fake credit cards, according to France's top anti-terrorism judge.
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Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the powerful anti-terrorism judge, has rounded up hundreds of suspected militants in France over 20 years and more recently earned a global reputation as having a key role in the fight against Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization.
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Former French president Jacques Chirac was questioned Thursday by a judge looking into a party funding scam during his time as mayor of Paris, judicial officials said.
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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 SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale worker who cost the French bank $7 billion in bad trades told investigators that all he wanted was to be respected, and to earn a big bonus.
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At least four people are being held hostage at a bank in the south of Paris, French TV reports say.
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"In a spirit of clarity and responsibility I plan to remind the judges of this context, in the absence of which one understands nothing"  Former French president Jacques Chirac was questioned Thursday by a judge looking into a party funding scam dating from his time as mayor of Paris, judicial officials said. via Free Republic
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Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader alleged to have cost his bank billions of euros, is police custody, reports say.
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French police were questioning a second trader about whether he knew of trades that led to billions in losses at bank SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, according to a newspaper report.
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The French financial trader at the centre of a massive fraud case gambled around 50bn euros, his employer says.
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Would-be robbers took eight people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen were arrested, police said.
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Romanian commercial bank BRD-SocGen said it had lunched Expresso hard currency loan facility for individals as part of the bank development strategy.
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A second trader suspected of involvement in the multi-billion dollar losses at Societe Generale bank was taken Saturday for questioning by judges.
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PARIS, Jan. 24 -- A "30-something" futures trader who worked on his bank's security systems and then allegedly used his skills to bypass those safeguards was accused Thursday of perpetrating one of the largest banking frauds in history.
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Huge pools of state-controlled cash have rescued American and European banks from their own mistakes. And the people who run those funds want some respect.
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A massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland last week might have been carried out by paramilitary group the IRA as a way of providing a "pension fund" for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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The French government has said the judiciary was working to shed light on the attempted sale by a Frenchman of hair believed to belong to the mummy of Ramses II.