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France: Ex-head of breast implant firm charged (AP)

Submitted by Glutes Health on January 27, 2012 - 05:47.

This is an image made available on Thursday Jan. 26, 2012 by Interpol of Jean-Claude Mas, when he was arrested in Costa Rica on a drink driving offence in 2010 . Mas, who ran the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, was detained at his residence in the Mediterranean coastal town of Six Fours Les Plages shortly before dawn, Thursday a police official said. A police search of the residence was under way, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is officially in the hands of judicial investigators. (AP Photo/ Interpol)AP - French authorities have filed preliminary charges against the former head of a now-defunct company accused of supplying potentially faulty breast implants affecting thousands of women.


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