One summer day, a CD-ROM landed on the desk of a French judge, revealing a list of secret bank accounts supposedly belonging to top French politicians. Among them: presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy. After a year of investigation, the judge decided the list was a fake. Livid, Sarkozy demanded a new probe to punish the mysterious informer, convinced the affair was devised to sully his reputation ahead of 2007 presidential elections. He accused his chief rival, now-Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, of knowing much earlier that it was all a hoax. The tentacles of this scandal have reached far beyond the two men, implicating the Defense Ministry, the parent company of Airbus and top French executives. It has shaken the confidence of France's upper echelons. ...
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