/ 21 February 2001

DIRTY ARMS DEALS TO COME OUT

ANGOLAN Defence Minister Kundi Payama is to reveal in parliament details of illegal arms sales to the country in 1993-1994 from French companies. French judges are currently investigating Brenco France, the arms trading company whose president Pierre Falcone is in prison on possible charges of having organised shipments of arms to Angola worth $500m with the aid of Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of the late president. – AFP