Former French Interior Minister Claude Guéant (70) Friday to two years ' imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 convicted shoddy money from the ministry. Guéant may also five years hold any public office. He goes against the judgment in appeal, French media reported Friday.
Two relatives of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have been arrested in Haiti and moved to the United States. The pair is Thursday charged with cocaine trafficking and the laundering of drug money.
A cousin of Venezuela's first lady was arrested and transferred to the United States on charges of drug trafficking. That said an unnamed source told Reuters Wednesday.
The French Ministry of Defence has since Thursday its own " Pentagon ". President François Hollande opened in the southwest of Paris, the new ministry, which covers 140,000 square meters. It is headed by the largest rooftop solar panels of the city and the complex is also planted in many places.
Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy is angry because an investigative judge who has requested his phone records. Thus Sarkozy's name popped up suddenly in a controversial investigation into drug trafficking between the Dominican Republic and Saint Tropez.
Suriname and Venezuela will work together more intensively . That's what President Desi Bouterse of Suriname and his colleague Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela agreed Friday with each other during a lightning visit of half a day Maduro to Paramaribo.
