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France Finally Starts to Unravel a Huge Arms Scandal

France Finally Starts to Unravel a Huge Arms Scandal

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Oct 15, 2019
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This week, 17 years after it first exploded, French authorities have put six men on trial in what has become known as “l’Affaire Karachi,” a part of a huge scandal in which one of France’s biggest state-backed defense companies allegedly paid bribes in countries across the planet on arms sales and top French politicians received kickbacks through a netw…

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