THE TELEGRAPH: The financial adviser to Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune, has been detained for questioning along with three others, amid a scandal that has embroiled the French government.
Patrice de Maistre, financial adviser to the 87-year-old, was being questioned by investigators, according to an official in the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
The others held include the celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier, accused by Mrs Bettencourt's daughter of milking the heiress out of €1 billion in gifts.
Mrs Bettencourt's former tax lawyer, Fabrice Goguel, and the manager of an island in the Seychelles that she owns, Carles Vejarano, were also being held for questioning, the official said. The official was not authorised to be publicly named because of judicial policy. >>> | Thursday, July 15, 2010
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