French UN Representative Held

Jean-Bernard Merimee, France’s former representative at the UN Security Council

France’s former representative. to the United Nations Security Council has been taken into custody, in the Oil-For-Food investigation

[. . . . ] Five people have already been placed under judicial investigation by judge Philippe Courroye in connection with the “oil-for-food” affair.

They are Serge Boidevaix, former secretary-general at the French foreign ministry; businessman Claude Kaspereit; Bernard Guillet, an adviser to former French interior minister Charles Pasqua; Gilles Munier, head of an Iraqi-French friendship society; and Palestinian journalist Hamida Nana.

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