A Swiss investigating magistrate today ordered Geneva banks to freeze any
accounts held by Mr Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, son of the late French president, who faces accusations of illegal arms trafficking.
Mr Daniel Devaud, a Geneva investigating magistrate handling the high-profile case, said he had acted on a request for judicial assistance by his French counterpart Mr Philippe Courroye.
Mr Mitterrand (54) has been held in a Paris prison for more than two weeks suspected of complicity in arms trafficking, influence peddling and embezzlement in relation to large sales of Russian arms to Angola in the early 1990s.
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He was granted bail by a French court earlier this week but was unable to come up with the funds to pay it.
Reuters