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Chirac to face probe

Paris: The former French President, Jacques Chirac, is to be questioned in the coming months over a corruption scandal involving fake jobs and linked to the former conservative political party he headed, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Mr. Chirac will “very probably” be questioned before September 15 in the long-running case, the lawyer said. However, he said Mr. Chirac had given an “absolutely definitive” refusal to being questioned in two other cases, the so-called Clearstream affair involving a smear campaign against Nicolas Sarkozy, and the alleged killing of a French judge in Djibouti in 1995. Mr. Chirac prevented judges investigating the case of the judge from making a search of the presidential palace last month. — AP

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