France’s would-be ECB chief on trial

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Series Details 7.1.03, p7
Publication Date 07/01/2003
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Article reports the start of the trial on 6 January 2003 of Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor of the Bank of France and aspiring candidate for the post of President of the European Central Bank. Mr Trichet and eight others are accused of covering up losses of Crédit Lyonnais, then a state-controlled bank, in the early 1990s.

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