Charles Pasqua: The court was not aware of all the details when it convicted Arcadi Gaydamak and passed its verdict.
“IDF Radio" (Galei Zahal) reports that former French interior minister Charles Pasqua said that Arcadi Gaydamak worked with French intelligence. A French court sentence Gaydamak in abstentia to six years in prison for arms smuggling in the Angolagate scandal. Pasqua was sentenced to one year in jail for his role in the affair.
Pasqua told "Le Figaro" that the court was not aware of all the details when it convicted Gaydamak and passed its verdict. "I expect (former French President) Jacques Chirac to take responsibility for the matter, and admit that he had intended to award Gaydamak a medal for his activities for France," he said.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on October 29, 2009
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