Papa Wemba to Be Tried in France Over Fake Visas
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Congolese-born world music star Papa Wemba will face trial in France on October 25 on charges of smuggling hundreds of people into the country using his band as a cover, the musician's French lawyer said on Monday. Papa Wemba, dubbed the King of Rhumba Rock, is charged with aiding illegal immigration, forgery and use of forged documents and criminal association. He faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty.
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French President Jacques Chirac's critics allege he is trying to get his former legal adviser into a key post to escape being tried on corruption charges.
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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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A Jordanian salesman who tried to use an identity card with Brad Pitt&#039;s photo was on trial in the Emirates, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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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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An investigation is launched in France as a man is held on suspicion of faking robbery to fund a terror group.
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Equatorial Guinea is sending its attorney general to South Africa to question Mark Thatcher over allegations that he helped in a failed coup in the west African country, Agence France
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NYON, Nov 25 (SW) - European Football governing body UEFA have officially announced they had launched an investigation over the racist chanting heard at Real Madridâs Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday night.
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Panama's former dictator, Manuel Noriega, can be extradited to France for a money laundering trial after he completes a lengthy jail sentence in Miami next month, a US judge ruled yesterday.
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A federal judge in Miami ruled that Manuel Antonio Noriega can be extradited to France, where he faces charges of money laundering.
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Â· French president headed for showdown in Brussels  Â· He will demand greater political control over euro
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A French television host, accused of  attacking and sexually harassing Air France cabin staff while  under the influence of alcohol, will appear in court next  month, a court official said on Monday.
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Â· Couple to visit Spain, Germany and HollandÂ· Witness who saw man 'wracked with guilt'
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Former Panamanian dictator to be extradited to France after completing a prison sentence in Miami.
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LOS ANGELES -- Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega will be extradited to France to serve a 10-year money-laundering sentence upon his release from federal jail in Florida this fall, according to US Justice Department papers filed in court yesterday. France convicted and sentenced Noriega in absentia in 1999. He was charged with unlawfully depositing millions in drug money in several ...
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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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A French man accused of -plotting to attack an Australian nuclear power station goes on trial in Paris.