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Summary A judge has charged a Lebanese in bribe scandal surrounding sale of French submarines to Pakistan.
Ziad Takieddine said he was satisfied with the judicial action since it gives him access to the investigators file.Civil parties lawyer Olivier Morice said that preliminary charges of complicity and receiving misappropriated funds were filed against Takieddine. Preliminary charges allow investigators to determine whether the case should proceed.A May 2002 attack in Karachi killed 11 French naval construction workers and four others. Judicial officials are studying whether the attack was linked to a cutting off of French bribes for armaments contracts.
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