French power brokers convicted over arms to Angola

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Source: Reuters

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"A French court convicted the son of late President Francois Mitterrand, a former minister and others who were once among France's power elite of crimes related to illegal arms sales to Angola during its civil war.

Known as "Angolagate", the trial centred on $790 million in arms sales to Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos' MPLA between 1993 and 1998, when it was fighting UNITA rebels led by Jonas Savimbi.

In the dock in a Paris court were 42 people accused of selling weapons to Angola in defiance of a U.N. arms embargo, or of taking payments from the arms dealers and using their influence to facilitate the sales.

The trial shone a light into a murky world of secret payments made in cash and discreet deals linking Parisian high society with one of Africa's longest-running wars."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLR44086820091027

[conspirator]

1. So rich people do run conspiracies that affect the life of many. Am I wrong?

For each conspiracy uncovered imagine how many that are not.