Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:15
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MARSEILLE: A French prosecutor on Tuesday called for the founder of a firm whose faulty breast implants sparked a global health scare to be given a four-year prison sentence on fraud charges.In closing arguments at the trial in Marseille, prosecutor Jacques Dallest also called for PIP founder Jean-Claude Mas to pay a 100,000 euro ($130,000) fine and to be banned from working in medical services or from running a company.The defence is to present its closing arguments from Wednesday to Friday, after a month-long trial that was among the biggest ever held in France.Five PIP executives are on trial in the case along with the 73-year-old Mas, charged with aggravated fraud for using industrial-grade silicone in implants.The others on trial are PIP's former general manager Claude Couty, quality control director Hannelore Font, technical director Loic Gossart and product director Thierry Brinon.The prosecutor called for prison terms of between six months ...
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MARSEILLE: A French prosecutor on Tuesday called for the founder of a firm whose faulty breast implants sparked a global health scare to be given a four-year prison sentence on fraud charges.In closing arguments at the trial in Marseille, prosecutor Jacques Dallest also called for PIP founder Jean-Claude Mas to pay a 100,000 euro ($130,000) fine and to be banned from working in medical services or from running a company.The defence is to present its closing arguments from Wednesday to Friday, after a month-long trial that was among the biggest ever held in France.Five PIP executives are on trial in the case along with the 73-year-old Mas, charged with aggravated fraud for using industrial-grade silicone in implants.The others on trial are PIP's former general manager Claude Couty, quality control director Hannelore Font, technical director Loic Gossart and product director Thierry Brinon.The prosecutor called for prison terms of between six months ...
WARSAW: Central European leader Poland got off to a weaker than expected start this year, quarterly data showed on Tuesday, amid expectations that central banks in the region will further cut interest rates to boost demand and spur a sluggish recovery.The only EU member to have grown each year over the last two decades, Poland mustered just 0.1 percent growth in the first quarter, initial official data showed, after zero growth in the last quarter ...
MOSCOW: Russia has detained an American citizen accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday.It said the man was an employee at the US embassy in Moscow but also worked for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. The embassy declined immediate comment.A spokesman for the FSB identified the man as Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the embassy, and said he ...
OTTAWA: Winds whipped up a wall of ice into a lakeside community in Canada's western Manitoba province, destroying or damaging dozens of cottages over the weekend, officials said Monday.The ice sheet was up to nine meters (29.5 feet) high at some places when it crashed into homes at Ochre Beach, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of the provincial capital Winnipeg.Twenty-seven cottages were destroyed or heavily damaged, including seven lived-in year-round, the town said in ...
BRUSSELS: The EU on Monday handed over the first two billion euros of loans agreed under the controversial Cyprus aid deal, the bloc's European Stability Mechanism said in a statement.The euro rescue fund said the first tranche in a 10-billion-euro ($13 billion) loan package in exchange for breaking up the Cypriot banking sector was "transferred today," with a second release of "up to one billion to be transferred before 30 June 2013."An unprecedented "haircut" on ...
ATHENS: A former Cypriot minister has been summoned to testify in the money laundering trial of a leading Greek ex-minister linked to controversial arms deals, a judicial source said on Monday.A Greek inquisitor issued the summons for Dinos Michaelides, interior minister of Cyprus in 1993-1999, and his son Michael after they failed to account for $10 million (7.7 million euros) found in a joint bank deposit.A witness has testified that Michaelides, who heads a Limassol ...
ROME: Italian prosecutors on Monday asked that Silvio Berlusconi be banned from politics forever and serve six years in prison at the former prime minister's trial for having sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his official powers."There is no doubt that Silvio Berlusconi is guilty of the crimes he is accused of," prosecutor Ilda Boccassini told the courtroom in Milan at the close of a two-year trial that could rock the country's newly-formed grand ...
