Showing posts with label Police Custody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Police Custody. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Global Health Scare-Breast Implants-Judicial Source-Police Custody-Bail

French implant boss jailed after missing bail payments

PARIS (Reuters) - Jean-Claude Mas, the Frenchman who set off a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants, has been jailed for not paying his bail, a judicial source said on Wednesday. Mas had been released from police custody on January 27 on bail of 100,000 euros ($131,600) and banned from leaving the country and from meeting former executives of his now defunct company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP). He faces a charge of causing bodily harm, although he is not under investigation for the graver charge of manslaughter. The judicial source said he was jailed on Monday night. ... read more..