Head of AmCham France is target of blackmail
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Published: 18 Nov, 2014 CET.
Updated: Tue 18 Nov 2014 10:27 CET
Clara Gaymard, president and CEO of General Electric France and president of the American Chamber of Commerce in France has filed a complaint after being the target of blackmail.
Gaymard, the wife of Hervé Gaymard, former minister of Economy, Finance and Industry in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, reportedly received several threatening emails to her work email account at the end of October.
In the messages, a mysterious correspondent demands to be sent confidential documents and contacts from Gaymard's address book.
The blackmailer then threatened to disseminate “personal documents” if Ms Gaymard refused to comply.
The Paris prosecutor's office has tasked a police unit with investigating the emails.
Ms Gaymard has said she does not wish to comment on the case.
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Gaymard, the wife of Hervé Gaymard, former minister of Economy, Finance and Industry in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, reportedly received several threatening emails to her work email account at the end of October.
In the messages, a mysterious correspondent demands to be sent confidential documents and contacts from Gaymard's address book.
The blackmailer then threatened to disseminate “personal documents” if Ms Gaymard refused to comply.
The Paris prosecutor's office has tasked a police unit with investigating the emails.
Ms Gaymard has said she does not wish to comment on the case.
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