Bernard Bertossa was

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from 1990 to 2002. He signed the 1996 " Appel de Genève" against international

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and other financial criminal activities. With French

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's king's attorney (''procureur du roi'')

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' magistrate Jean de Maillard and investigative magistrate

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, he signed a 9 May 2001 op-ed in ''

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'' newspaper, titled ""The 'black boxes' of financial globalization", which supported

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in his discovery of the Clearstream Affair.

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