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27 January 2012
The businessman at the centre of a global breast implant scandal has been charged with "unintentional wounding".
Jean-Claude Mas, 72, was arrested at his million-pound villa in Six-Fours-les-Plages, close to Toulon in the south of France, yesterday morning.
He made millions from the now defunct Poly Implant Prothese, which sold faulty implants across the world. About 40,000 British women are thought to have PIP implants.
Another PIP director, Claude Couty, was also arrested in nearby La Seyne-sur-Mer. Mas's lawyer, Yves Haddad, said "he answered hundreds of questions about his responsibility" for the scandal. Mas complained of heart problems but had otherwise "been very co-operative".
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