Iskandar Safa
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Iskandar Safa (Beirut, 1952) is a French businessman and billionaire of Lebanese origins (Maronite Christian family), who became famous during the Lebanese hostage crisis in 1987-88 and suspected financial transactions of the ransom [1]. He was the director of Triacorps, and also worked with the Sofremi.
He is the owner of the CMN (Construction mécaniques de Normandie) [2], suspected of illegal fundings of Jean-Charles Marchiani, the former second-hand man of former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua.
He has also been indicted for the suspected buying of a friendly article published in 2005 in Le Point, titled "Un PDG interdit de séjour". [3]
[edit] References
- ^ Iskandar Safa and the French Hostage Scandal, Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, vol. 4 n°2, February 2002 (English)
- ^ Des «scoops» sur écoute, Libération, 8 May 2007 (French)
- ^ Franz-Olivier Giesbert entendu par la police au sujet de l'achat d'un article complaisant par un milliardaire Le Monde 12.04.07.