Bin Laden inquiry to widen

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Bin Laden inquiry to widen
Reuters
December 27, 2004
PARIS: A French judge has widened a probe into the financial network surrounding the family of Osama bin Laden after questioning his half-brother and learning of a E241 million ($425.7million) transfer to Pakistan.

Investigating magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke received court authorisation to extend his investigation after Yeslam bin Laden was questioned over allegations of links with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US.

As a result, Mr Van Ruymbeke was adding "other instances of money laundering" to the probe already under way, Le Monde newspaper reported on the weekend.
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Although he denied having had any contact with his half-brother for the past 20 years, the paper said, documents held by Swiss banking authorities suggest that Yeslam and Osama bin Laden held a joint account in Switzerland between 1990 and 1997, according to Jean-Charles Brisard – a private investigator hired by families of the victims of the September 11 attacks.

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