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• French market watchdog denies protecting minister

  - 2006-01-19

  PARIS AFP — The French stock market regulator AMF vigorously defended itself, calling reports that it had censored the findings of an investigation to protect French Finance Minister Thierry Breton "blatant calumny". AMF Financial Markets Authority has faced accusations that it modified the findings of its probe into accounting...

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• Investigators raid French finance ministry

  - 2005-06-27

  PARIS AFP — An investigating magistrate accompanied by police raided the premises of the French economy and finance ministry. A ministry source close to the matter told AFP that they were carrying out enquiries in connection with a probe into the acounts of French chemical company Rhodia. Finance Minister...

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• French finance ministry, Rhodia raided in corporate accounts probe

  - 2005-06-27

  PARIS AFP — An investigating judge in the Rhodia financial reporting affair and police raided the French finance ministry, and a source told AFP that the probe concerned the chemical company when Economy and Finance Minister Thierry Breton was a member of its board. Rhodia said later that its...

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• Rhodia target of probe into accounts when minister was on board: source

  - 2005-03-25

  PARIS AFP — The French specialty chemicals group Rhodia is under investigation for accounting faults which allegedly took place while French Finance Minister Thierry Breton was a member of the board, a judicial source said. The finance ministry said that Breton, who was travelling to Japan, was untroubled by...

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• Finance minister denies involvement in company's alleged accounting irregularities

  - 2005-03-25

  PARIS AFP — The French speciality chemicals group Rhodia is under investigation for accounting irregularities that allegedly took place while French Finance Minister Thierry Breton was a member of the board, a judicial source said. A separate source close to the affair told AFP that the French financial markets...

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• Rhodia announces refinancing, stock surges

  - 2004-03-31

  PARIS AFP ? French chemicals group Rhodia announced that it had agreed a refinancing plan totalling about 1.8 billion euros (2.19 billion dollars), pushing its shares up 20 percent. The company said it would also sell assets to raise at least 700 million euros this year. The company,...

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