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Case 3:07-cv-04755-JSW
Former minister faces questioning over loan

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International News
Friday 7 August 1998

Electronic Telegraph
Issue 1169

Former minister faces questioning over loan
By Susannah Herbert in Paris THE former French defence minister François Léotard has been summoned for questioning by judges investigating a suspect loan, his lawyer said yesterday. M Léotard, a one-time presidential hopeful, is to be questioned today about a £500,000 loan made to the Republican Party in 1996. It was made by the Fondo Sociale di Cooperazione Europea, a Milan-based financial firm, and was used to buy the freehold of the party's headquarters when M Léotard was party leader. The loan was secured after Serge Hauchart, a colleague of M Léotard, took £500,000 in a bag to the FSCE's Paris office. M Léotard's entourage have claimed that the loan was entirely legitimate, but two investigative judges, Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky, want more information. M Hauchart, and the former financial director of the Republican Party, Antoine de Menthon, have been placed under formal investigation for money-laundering. The Republican Party - one of the Right-wing coalition which ruled France until last year - was recently renamed Liberal Democracy. M Léotard lost control this year to his rival Alain Madelin, a former finance minister. The newspaper Le Monde said yesterday that M Léotard would be indicted today accused of money laundering and illegal finacing of a political party. 24 May 1998: Chirac faces ultimate price of financial scandal 8 November 1997: French slush fund finances 30 'shadow bureaucrats'
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Former minister faces questioning over loan

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