US EditionFrench ex-spy chief cops suspended jail term for 15 mn euro shakedown
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lalsace.frThe former CEO of the DGSE was sentenced to one year's suspended imprisonment for complicity in attempted extortion for having validated an illegal operation with "shocky" methods against a businessman.
This conviction, which is heavier than the sentence required by the prosecution, follows a decade of investigation and reversals.
Bernard Bajolet was found guilty on Thursday of complicity in attempted extortion and arbitrary violation of individual freedom by the public authority. Businessman Alain Duménil accuses the intelligence service of having used coercion to claim money from him in 2016.
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French ex-spy chief cops suspended jail term for 15 mn euro shakedown
A former head of France's foreign intelligence agency was handed a one-year suspended jail sentence Thursday for attempted extortion worth millions of euros.
Businessman Alain Duménil accuses the intelligence service of using coercion to claim money in 2016.
The former Director of DGSE, Bernard Bajolet, was found guilty in a case of attempted extortion of a businessman. Facts that date back to 12 March 2016 Bernard Bajolet,
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