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France has opened a probe into the personal wealth of Riad Salameh, central bank chief in crisis-hit Lebanon, sources told AFP Sunday. Paris financial prosecutors have opened a preliminary probe into criminal association and money laundering by Salameh, a source close to the investigation and a judicial source said, following a similar move by Switzerland. Its findings could shed light onto the origins of the 70-year-old former Merrill Lynch...

Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange sprayed by the U.S. continue to suffer but have never been adequately compensated.

By Dominique Vidalon and Yiming Woo | May 11, 2021 insurancejournal.com PARIS – A French court on Monday threw out a lawsuit by a French-Vietnamese woman against more than a dozen multinationals that produced and sold a toxic herbicide dubbed “Agent Orange,” used by U.S. troops during the war in Vietnam. Filed in 2014, the case…

The name Agent Orange became synonymous with the horrors of modern chemical warfare. Between 1961 and 1971 the U.S. military used an estimated 20 million gallons of the toxic cocktail to destroy the dense foliage of the Vietnamese rainforest, with devastating results for the people who lived there. But its use did not end there. Surplus from the Agent Orange stockpile was used back home in the U.S. even after Congress banned its use in Vietnam....

BNP Paribas, one of France’s leading banks, has been indicted on suspicion of laundering tens of millions of euros of Gabonese public money stemming from corruption and embezzlement. It’s the latest…

Europes biggest bank charged with laundering ill-gotten funds for African dictator Historic first as BNP-Paribas accused of helping buy a string of luxury properties in France for Gabons wealthy Bongo family 21 May 2021 • 7:10pm Omar Bongo, who ruled Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009, was a “politically exposed person” at “risk of laundering”, according to a report Credit: AFP Europes biggest bank, BNP-Paribas, has been charged with "laundering" tens of millions of euros worth o...

 Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary,  The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France — “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote: Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons d...

Tran To Nga (R) speaks with the press (Photo: VNA) Berlin (VNA) – The German Communist Party (DKP) on May 10 issued a statement expressing its support for the lawsuit lodged by Vietnamese French Tran To Nga and Vietnamese Agent Orange/dioxin victims against 14 In a statement sent to the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany and the Vietnam News Agency representative office in Berlin, the DKP stated that on May 10, a court in Evry city, Paris ruled that the case fell outside its jurisdiction. This r...

Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 07:55 GMT+7 A French court on Monday threw out a lawsuit by a French-Vietnamese woman against more than a dozen multinationals that produced and sold a toxic herbicide dubbed "Agent Orange,” used by U.S. troops during the war in Vietnam. Filed in 2014, the case has pitched Tran To Nga, a 79-year-old who claims she was a victim of Agent Orange, against 14 chemical firms, including U.S. companies Dow Chemical and Monsanto, now owned by Germanys Bayer. Tran To Nga told Re...

French Court Throws Out Lawsuit for ‘Agent Orange’ Damage During Vietnam War By Dominique Vidalon and Yiming Woo | May 11, 2021 PARIS – A French court on Monday threw out a lawsuit by a French-Vietnamese woman against more than a dozen multinationals that produced and sold a toxic herbicide dubbed “Agent Orange,” used by U.S. troops during the war in Vietnam. Filed in 2014, the case has pitched Tran To Nga, a 79-year-old who claims she was a victim ...