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branch and withdrew 8 million francs (800 million old francs, 1.2 million euros, $ 1.6 million at the time) from Marcel
Dassault's account which he put in two big bags, and then disappeared with Jean Kay. Vathaire was found, with part of the money. Jean Kay was untraceable. On August 27, two days
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from the Greek island of Corfu on
September 8, 1976, and was arrested, but had none of the stolen funds in his possession. What happened to the missing money remains a mystery. Some sources theorized that it may have financed the Lebanese Christian
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Lebanese civil war. Others speculated that the money might have funded two burglaries that were used to finance international networks of the extreme right, including the efforts of
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