Pierre Falcone is a member of Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

's delegation to UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

, and holds the rank of Minister Counsellor. He is married to artist and socialite Sonia Falcone

Sonia Falcone

Sonia Falcone is a Bolivian painter and artist. She was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 27 March 1965, but from an early age moved to the United States where she began to paint. As a child, Sonia Falcone wanted to be a dentist; she attended nursing school but finally chose art as her path in life....

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French prosecutors accused Falcone and Arcadi Gaydamak

Arcadi Gaydamak

Arcadi Aleksandrovich Gaydamak, is a Russian-Israeli businessman, who was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honour. On April 29, 2011 the Court of Appeal in Paris acquitted him of charges of arms dealing...

 of selling arms to the Angolan government from 1993 to 2000 in violation of the Lusaka Protocol

Lusaka Protocol

The Lusaka Protocol, signed in Lusaka, Zambia on October 31, 1994, attempted to end the Angolan Civil War by integrating and disarming UNITA and national reconciliation. Both sides signed a ceasefire as part of the protocol on November 20.-Negotiation:...

. The sales are part of the Angolagate

Angolagate

Angolagate, also known as the Mitterrand-Pasqua affair, is an international political scandal over the secret sale and shipment of arms from Central Europe to the government of Angola by the Government of France in the 1990s...

scandal.

In 2009 a Criminal Court in Paris sentenced Falcone to 6 years jail for arms trafficking.

External links

http://www.denistouret.net/constit/Falcone.html