Jean de Maillard
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Jean de Maillard is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 magistrate
Magistrate
A magistrate is an officer of the state; in modern usage the term usually refers to a judge or prosecutor. This was not always the case; in ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest government officers and possessed both judicial and executive powers. Today, in common law systems, a...

 in Blois
Blois
Blois is the capital of Loir-et-Cher department in central France, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire between Orléans and Tours.-History:...

.

He wrote several books concerning financial crime
Fraud
In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation...

. He also co-signed a May 9, 2001 op-ed in Le Monde
Le Monde
Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

with Bernard Bertossa
Bernard Bertossa
Bernard Bertossa was Geneva's public prosecutor from 1990 to 2002. He signed the 1996 Appel de Genève against international money laundering and other financial criminal activities...

, attorney general in Geneva, Benoît Dejemeppe, king's attorney in Bruxelles (procureur du roi), Eva Joly
Eva Joly
Eva Joly is a Norwegian-born French magistrate and politician for the French Green Party.-Early life:Born in Grünerløkka, Oslo, she moved to Paris at 20 to work as an au pair...

, investigative magistrate in Paris, and Renaud van Ruymbeke
Renaud Van Ruymbeke
Renaud van Ruymbeke is a French investigative magistrate, well known for specializing in political and financial corruption cases, who investigated on the French-Taiwan frigates Affair, which has been related to the Clearstream scandal, and on the Urba affair.- Bibliography :*Renaud van Ruymbeke,...

, judge in Paris, entitled The 'black boxes' of financial globalization, that supported reporter Denis Robert
Denis Robert
Denis Robert is a French freelance journalist and a writer. Robert formerly worked for Libération newspaper for 12 years....

 in his investigations concerning the Clearstream Affair
Clearstream affair
The "Clearstream affair" was a political scandal in France in the run-up to the 2007 presidential election.The name refers to the Luxembourg bank Clearstream Banking S.A., now wholly owned by Deutsche Börse, which was alleged to have aided many prominent French politicians and companies evade taxes...

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Books

Les beaux jours du crime. Vers une société criminelle ? Plon, 1992. Un monde sans loi. La criminalité financière en images. Editions Stock, 1999.
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