PARIS (Reuters) - French police have detained Mali's former defence minister, Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga, as part of a bribery investigation involving a Corsican businessman, a source close to the matter said on Friday.
The businessman, Michel Tomi, was placed under investigation in June on suspicion of bribing foreign public officials, breach of trust and forgery as part of a probe launched in 2013, a judicial source said then.
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