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Tuesday, December 22, 1998 Published at 18:26 GMT
World: Americas
Paraguayan consul faces fraud charges
Paraguay's former honorary consul in Switzerland, Gustavo Gramont Beres, has been extradited to Geneva to face charges connected with a one-hundred-million dollar fraud and forgery scam.
Mr Gramont Beres is accused of using official Paraguayan documents to obtain loans from Swiss banks for industrial development projects.
Mr Gramont Beres was Paraguay's honorary consul in Geneva from 1979 to 1989.
He is now being held at a prison in Geneva awaiting trial.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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