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Yasser's millions

July 12, 2005 Posted by Scott at 6:55 PM

The Wall Street Journal's Carl Bialik writes:

Paris investigators looking into the finances of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are investigating about $8.4 million of transfers they suspect benefited a former Lebanese militiaman. They are seeking to establish whether the transfers were embezzled from Palestinian public funds, either from the Palestine Liberation Organization or the Palestinian Authority, according to a Paris judicial official.
The Journal has made the timely article by Benoit Faucon freely available online: "Probe of Arafat's finances focuses on transfers to ex-militiaman."