Two sentences of six years in prison were required Friday against the businessmen Pierre Falcone and Arcadi Gaydamak tried by the Court of Appeal of Paris in the case of Angolagate alleged arms trafficking to destination Angola's war in the 90s. Two fines of 375,000 euros and 5 million were required respectively against Pierre Falcone and Arcadi Gaydamak.
This is the sentence that had sentenced in October 2009 before the criminal court, Falcone, 56, who holds dual French and Angolan and Gaydamak, 58, a Franco-Russian-born Israeli. Pierre Falcone, who attended both trials, is being held in Fleury-Merogis (Essonne) from the trial decision.
His business partner, within the scope of an international arrest warrant, is in hiding and never appeared before a French court. Both men are charged with organizing an arms sale to Angola from 1993 to 1998, civil war, amounting to $ 790 million, secured on future revenues from oil. "When I read this issue, I was seized with vertigo face are at stake," he said in his submissions the Advocate General Michael Lerner, insisting on "the seriousness of the facts".
For the prosecution, the operation was controlled from the French siege of Falcone's company, Brenco, and should have been duly authorized, which was not the case. On the other hand, everything has been done to conceal it, the tax authorities in particular. So there was trade "illegal." The defense contends that the sale did not need permission because it was made by a Slovak company and that the equipment had not passed through France.
In a related aspect of this case, a sentence of three years suspended sentence was also sought against former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua for influence peddling. The Crown also claimed 150,000 euros fine and a penalty of disqualification against the former minister. Sentenced to three years in prison, half suspended, for complicity in trafficking of influence has also been sought against the former prefect of the Var, Jean-Charles Marchiani, collaborator of Charles Pasqua, the Ministry of Interior in the material time.
At trial, the UMP Senator of Hauts de Seine, 83, was sentenced to three years imprisonment with one year closes and a fine of € 100,000 while three-year suspended sentence had been required. It was the first sentence of imprisonment of Charles Pasqua, implicated in several other court cases. 
This is the sentence that had sentenced in October 2009 before the criminal court, Falcone, 56, who holds dual French and Angolan and Gaydamak, 58, a Franco-Russian-born Israeli. Pierre Falcone, who attended both trials, is being held in Fleury-Merogis (Essonne) from the trial decision.
His business partner, within the scope of an international arrest warrant, is in hiding and never appeared before a French court. Both men are charged with organizing an arms sale to Angola from 1993 to 1998, civil war, amounting to $ 790 million, secured on future revenues from oil. "When I read this issue, I was seized with vertigo face are at stake," he said in his submissions the Advocate General Michael Lerner, insisting on "the seriousness of the facts".
For the prosecution, the operation was controlled from the French siege of Falcone's company, Brenco, and should have been duly authorized, which was not the case. On the other hand, everything has been done to conceal it, the tax authorities in particular. So there was trade "illegal." The defense contends that the sale did not need permission because it was made by a Slovak company and that the equipment had not passed through France.
In a related aspect of this case, a sentence of three years suspended sentence was also sought against former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua for influence peddling. The Crown also claimed 150,000 euros fine and a penalty of disqualification against the former minister. Sentenced to three years in prison, half suspended, for complicity in trafficking of influence has also been sought against the former prefect of the Var, Jean-Charles Marchiani, collaborator of Charles Pasqua, the Ministry of Interior in the material time.
At trial, the UMP Senator of Hauts de Seine, 83, was sentenced to three years imprisonment with one year closes and a fine of € 100,000 while three-year suspended sentence had been required. It was the first sentence of imprisonment of Charles Pasqua, implicated in several other court cases.
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