France probes bank accounts of Arafat's wife

[Gimel]

By Reuters

PARIS - French prosecutors said on Tuesday they had opened an inquiry into transfers totaling nine million euros ($11.5 million) into bank accounts held in France by Suha Arafat, the wife of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.

The Paris public prosecutor confirmed a report in Le Canard Enchaine weekly that an inquiry into Suha Arafat, who lives in Paris, was launched last October after information provided by the Bank of France and a government anti-money laundering body.

The prosecutor's office said they wanted to check transfers from a Swiss-based institution made between July 2002 and July 2003 into two separate accounts held by her in Paris.

The office said the probe is at the preliminary stage, meaning its aim is to determine whether there is sufficient grounds to take investigations further.

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[JasonDeter]

1. "sufficient grounds to take investigations further?" Duh!

arafat is the highest paid terrorist on the planet. Even bin laden says, "damn!" The news today seems to show the French gov't showing some moxy.

[drdon326]

2. Gimel

do you know what the odds of us posting THE SAME ARTICLE
AT THE SAME TIME are??

[beanball]

3. Double standards

why is it that Sharon and his family can skim millions of dollars off the top of the welfare checks we send them every year and not a word from the Arafat haters.?

[Fight_n_back]

4. Where is your evidence of that?

What does Sharon have to do with the French government investigating Arafat's wife? Are you accusing her of having an affair with Sharon?

This is akin to arguing with someone about Bush and hearing them say "What about Clinton?" Well? What about the subject we were talking about? What could Sharon possibly do that would have anything to do with the guilt or innocence of the Arafat clan laundering the BILLIONS of dollars the PA receieves in aid every year from oil rich nations around the world.

I hope you are not an attorney because that was not an eloquent defense of Arafat you just gave.