Arafat's wife blames Sharon for laundering controversy
Yasser Arafat’s wife today accused Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of being behind reports of a probe by French prosecutors into alleged transfers of millions of pounds to her Paris bank accounts.
The preliminary probe, opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office in October, is looking into more than €8m allegedly transferred to Suha Arafat’s accounts at the Arab Bank and at French bank BNP between July 2002 and September 2003, French judicial officials have said.
