French legal team in KL to probe Scorpene deal

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Joseph Breham, a member of a French legal team that filed complaints in a Paris court in connection with a potentially explosive scandal over the billion-dollar purchase of French submarines by Malaysia is in Kuala Lumpur today, to seek further information on the case and to speak with their clients, human rights organisation Suaram .

The deal was engineered by then-defense minister Najib Razak, now prime minister, in 2002 and resulted in a massive RM3.7 billion commission for one of Najib's closest associates, Abdul Razak Baginda.

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