Ex-tax adviser to L’Oreal heiress held by police

THE financial adviser to the L’Oreal cosmetics heiress at the centre of a French government financial scandal was taken in for questioning by prosecutors yesterday.

Patrice de Maistre, who worked for 87-year-old Liliane Bettencourt, was being held in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

Bettencourt’s former tax lawyer Fabrice Goguel and the manager of an island in the Seychelles that she owns, Carles Vejarano, were also being held for questioning, an official said.