Jail for faulty breast implant boss

Jail for faulty breast implant boss 

Dec 10 - In one of France's biggest ever trials, PIP boss Jean Claude Mas and four colleagues have been sentenced to jail for selling faulty breast implants. The ensuing health scare affected an estimated 300,000 women. David Pollard reports.

The boss of a company which was found to have sold 300,000 faulty breast implants – including 47,000 to British women - has been jailed for four years.Jean-Claude Mas, the head of Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), was accused of aggravated fraud for using industrial-grade silicone in the implants.

He was also fined €75,000 (£63,000) by the court.
Four other former executives of the company received sentences between one and half and three years in prison.
Concerns about the implants were first raised in 2009 and the French government recommended all women with the implants to have them removed two year later.
Mas apologised for the implants in April, saying: "I apologise to the plaintiffs for the gel used by PIP since 1992."