Panama's ex-dictator Noriega faces trial in Paris for money laundering

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Source: afp

AFP - Two months after he was extradited from the United States, Panama's ex-dictator Manuel Noriega will stand trial in Paris on Monday on charges of laundering Colombian drug money in French banks.

The 76-year-old general, who ruled Panama from 1981 to 1989, was flown to Paris from Miami in late April on an international arrest warrant following his conviction in absentia in France in 1999.

Noriega and his wife Felicidad were sentenced in France to 10 years in prison but for years the ex-leader had fought extradition from his prison cell in Miami until a US Supreme Court ruling in March quashed his last appeal.
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Now looking frail after two decades in a US jail, Noriega denies taking money from the cocaine dealers and claims the funds were from his brother's inheritance, his wife's fortune and payments made to him by the CIA.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100628-panama-ex-dictator-noriega-faces-trial-paris-money-laundering-france-drugs-justice

[E_Olenska]

1. I'll just bet

there are some people who are afraid of what he might have to say.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Yup, you gotta wonder about Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & gang going scot free

while the corporate establishment keeps punishing this old newsmaker. Something's not right. No matter how much he drug-ran or stole, if he did, it's NOTHING compared to the Bush Junta's massive and horrendous human rights, financial and anti-democracy crimes. Yet they keep dragging him around from court to court and jail to jail.