French Court Convicts Mitterrand Son of Tax Fraud
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A French court Wednesday found the eldest  son of former French President Francois Mitterrand guilty of  tax fraud and sentenced him to a suspended 30-month prison  sentence.
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A Paris court on Friday gave French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen a three-month suspended prison sentence and a $14,500 fine for denying the brutality of the Nazis' World War II occupation of France.
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Vivendi Universal and its former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier have each been fined 1m euros ($1.3m; Â£690,000) by French regulators.
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A French appeal court will give its verdict on December 1 in the case of former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, found guilty in January on corruption charges.
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A Paris court sent French trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars Friday, while the investigation into billions of euros (dollars) of losses he allegedly caused for bank Societe Generale took a new twist with a second employee taken into custody.
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He committed the biggest individual fraud in history but France is lauding the 'quiet and fragile' JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel as a national hero
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A young trader blamed for losses that cost France's Societe Generale more than $7 billion hacked computers and used "several techniques of fraud," the bank said Sunday, as judicial officials said the man would remain in custody a further 24 hours.
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A French court on Friday convicted a 27-year-old man of trying to shoot President Jacques Chirac during a Bastille Day parade and sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison.
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A German court acquitted the suspected right-hand man of international guerrilla &quot;Carlos the Jackal&quot; Monday of charges that he took part in deadly bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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A German court yesterday sentenced a second member of one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings to three years prison and handed down a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.
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Jean-Marie Messier, the former chief of Vivendi Universal SA who is under investigation for alleged fraud and stock manipulation, was fined 1 million euros ($1.3 million) by French regulator Autoritee des Marches Financiers.
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A federal judge in Miami today approved the extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France, where he faces a 10-year sentence on a conviction in absentia on money-laundering charges.
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French regulators fined Vivendi Universal (EAUG.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) and its former CEO Jean-Marie Messier one million euros each on Tuesday for
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A French court on Monday sentenced six charity workers to eight years in prison, after they were convicted in Chad of trying to abduct more than 100 children.
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Jean-Marie Messier, the former chief of Vivendi Universal SA who is under investigation for alleged fraud and stock manipulation, was fined 1 million euros ($1.3 million) by French regulator
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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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PARIS - France&#39;s stock market regulator on Tuesday fined Jean-Marie Messier euro1 million (US$1.35 million) for misleading financial information issued by Vivendi Universal SA when he was its chairman and CEO, Messier&#39;s lawyer said.