Thursday, March 18, 2010

[pima.nius] TAHITI: Flosse secretary detention linked to probe into journalist's disappearance

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Title – 6713 TAHITI: Flosse secretary detention linked to probe into journalist's disappearance
Date – 19 March 2010
Byline – None
Origin – Pacific Media Watch
Source – Radio NZ International, 18/3/10
Copyright – RNZI
Status – Unabridged
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FLOSSE SECRETARY DETENTION LINKED TO PROBE INTO FRENCH POLYNESIAN JOURNALIST'S DISAPPEARANCE
www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=52537

PAPE'ETE (Radio NZ International/Pacific Media Watch): The private secretary of French Polynesia's veteran politician, Gaston Flosse, has been released after being detained for more than 24 hours.

There has been no official comment about the latest detention of Melba Ortas but the two Tahiti newspapers have been told by sources that she was questioned in connection with a probe into the 1997 disappearance of a local journalist, Jean-Pascal Couraud.

The investigation into the fate of the journalist was opened more than five years ago and centres on a complaint by his family that he was murdered.

There are allegations that he was kidnapped and drowned off Tahiti by members of the now disbanded GIP militia, which was working for Flosse.

Flosse has said he has never ordered anybody's death.

The newspapers say her latest detention may have been prompted by comments made during her jailing last year when she was held for three months as part of a probe into the so-called OPT affair.

Ortas was alleged to have picked up an envelope with US$12,000 in cash from an advertising agency in Pape'ete every month on behalf of Flosse and his party.

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