5 minutes agoFormer French prime minister, 90, tried for corruption
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, now 90 years old, will be tried for “co-operation in social property abuse” by a special court, on the issue on a possible secret political financing during signing arms contracts with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the prosecution suggested. In this case, you will be judged [...]
In this case, former Defence Minister Francisco Leotard, 77, will be tried by the Republic Court of Justice, as well as by former Defence Minister Francis Leotard, general prosecutor Francis Molins, added.
The two former leaders were indicted in 2017 over the Karachi case, which was named after the May 8, 2008, assassination of 15 people, among whom 11 French shipbuilding officials were injured 12 others in the Pakistani portual city.
Victims were working on building one of three submarines sold in this country under the government of Edouard Balladurdur.
