{"id":413997,"date":"2011-05-02T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/pierre-falcone-acquited-in-france-angola-arms-traffic-trial\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:10:51","slug":"pierre-falcone-acquited-in-france-angola-arms-traffic-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/pierre-falcone-acquited-in-france-angola-arms-traffic-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Falcone Acquited in France-Angola Arms Traffic Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"19.7118133935\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angolapress-angop.ao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/b10af6e2angop180.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Angola Press Agency (Luanda)\" title=\"Visit Angola Press Agency (Luanda)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Luanda \u2014 The Paris appeals court acquitted on Friday Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak who were accused of links to arms trafficking to Angola.<\/p>\n<p>Former minister Charles Pasqua, an icon of French conservative politics for decades, had been convicted of influence-peddling in the complex corruption case. The Paris appeals court acquitted him Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The court also acquitted the former minister Charles Pasqua, an icon of French conservative politics for decades, had been convicted of influence-peddling in the complex corruption case.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli billionaire Arkady Gaydamak and businessman Pierre Falcone were considered as the masterminds behind a network trafficking Soviet-made weapons to Angola during its civil war in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The original trial in 2009 involved 42 defendants, many of them former French officials accused in the sensitive far-reaching case the French dubbed Angolagate.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105020275.html\" title=\"Pierre Falcone Acquited in France-Angola Arms Traffic Trial\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pierre Falcone Acquited in France-Angola Arms Traffic Trial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 May 2011 Luanda \u2014 The Paris appeals court acquitted on Friday Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak who were accused of links to arms trafficking to Angola. 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