Trial PIP: Jean-Claude Mas

Trial PIP: Jean-Claude Mas, former boss denies being a crook 
On the second day of his appeal hearing, Jean-Claude Mas, the former boss of breast implant company PIP, continues to refuse the term crook. Always Believing that "the PIP gel was better." To the chagrin of dozens of carriers victims of implants in the room.
The former boss of breast implant maker PIP, Jean-Claude Mas, insisted Tuesday does not consider himself a crook, acknowledging having filled a fraudulent silicone gel tens of thousands of implants during his appeal.said this man of 76, who appears dressed in a black vest stretched before the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence.
At first instance, the founding president of Poly Implant Prosthesis was sentenced in 2013 to four years in prison, 75,000 euro fine and a permanent ban on practicing an activity in the field of health and manage a company.
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The president of French manufacturer PIP prostheses claims innocence in court

Nov 18th 2015
The expatrón the French manufacturer of breast implants PIP, Jean-Claude Mas, whose fraudulent products affected hundreds of thousands of women worldwide, said Tuesday before the judges is not considered a scammer.
"Fraud? I do not understand what they speak or fraud to the detriment of who "declared the man of 76 years to appear before a French court of appeal in Aix-en-Provence (southeast).
The president and founder of Poly Implant Prothèse had been sentenced in 2013 to four years in prison, a fine of 75,000 euros and permanently prohibited from practicing any activity in the field of health, or business positions of responsibility.But it is now facing charges of fraud against the German certification company TÜV, who was deceived by the PIP products.
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PIP trial: the "perfect gel" an almost perfect boss
Who are you, Mr. Mas? A frighteningly Machiavellian character who oscillates constantly between a half-confession and provocation? Singular man, at any rate, to 76 years, age pardons and all human concessions, five years after the discovery of the PIP scandal and its 7000 victims to dare even tell the bar a court of appeal, that its PIP gel, homemade, who was competing in the American Nusil gel, the only approved, was "perfect".
If one believes the charges length reread yesterday by President Eric Cibiel, it was mainly a gel "seven times cheaper," a gel that allowed to "9.90 € savings per prosthesis". A gel designed by a man that everyone will evoke "omnipotence", the "anger" recurrent, difficult to contradict, difficult to thwart. Mas, the large PIP officer who in 2007, with a turnover of 13 million and sales of € 131 500 breast implants had become the fourth largest producer, with 80% exported implants, particularly towards 'South America.
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