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Old 05-29-2010, 07:22   #1
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France: Noriega

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France: Noriega Request Rejected

A Paris appellate court on Friday rejected a request by the former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega to be freed from prison pending a late June trial, deeming him a flight risk. Mr. Noriega has been held here since his extradition last month from the United States. He is to be tried on charges that he laundered $3 million in Colombian drug money through international banks and into French accounts in 1988 and 1989; Mr. Noriega has said the money came from payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, which once considered him a valued asset; his brother’s inheritance; and his wife’s personal fortune. A French court convicted him in absentia on the same charges in 1999. A lawyer for Mr. Noriega said his client would appeal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/wo...tml?ref=europe

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Old 07-07-2010, 18:54   #2
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French Court Sentences Noriega To 7 Years

The former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega was convicted Wednesday of money laundering and sentenced by a French judge to seven years in prison.

Mr. Noriega, 76, was found guilty by the 11th chamber of the Tribunal Correctionnel de Paris, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said. The tribunal ordered Mr. Noriega to forfeit about $2.9 million that had been frozen in his French bank accounts.


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