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L’OREAL HEIRESS FACES POLICE PROBE
France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, is to be questioned by police about alleged tax evasion and money laundering in a scandal that has hit the government, public prosecutors said yesterday. President Nicolas Sarkozy has been embarrassed by allegations by the former bookkeeper of L’Oreal cosmetics heiress Bettencourt, 87, that the billionairess and her late husband made illegal cash donations, including to Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign.