At this time it is not clear whether Campo's conviction in Dubai in June 2003 and one year prison sentence and subsequent deportation has been quashed or set aside. I am seeking clarification on this and will update this post once this has been clarified.
22nd July 2010
I understand from Paulina Campo-Bacque, the executive director of The Wine Academy of Spain that the lawyer of the Butler family (Campo's in-laws) who will be handling all matters related to the case. I have asked Campo-Bacque to forward some questions to this family lawyer and am awaiting a response.
28th July 2010
I'm still awaiting a response.
22nd July 2010
I understand from Paulina Campo-Bacque, the executive director of The Wine Academy of Spain that the lawyer of the Butler family (Campo's in-laws) who will be handling all matters related to the case. I have asked Campo-Bacque to forward some questions to this family lawyer and am awaiting a response.
28th July 2010
I'm still awaiting a response.
3 comments:
Astonishing.
Seems all wine sites have published Campo's communiqué without further investigation. Strange.
To an extent, Hervé. As detailed above I have sent questions to be forwarded to the Butler family lawyer, who I was informed would be dealing with any matters arising. I have yet to receive a response.
I have also contacted Interpol and am awaiting a response to my questions.
Someone from the Associated Press Paris bureau did contact the Interpol press office. They were told that Interpol do not stop wanted notices themselves. As I understand the request has to come from one of the members of Interpol. In this case presumably from the UAE.
I assume that this is also the case for putting wanted notices onto the Interpol system.
If this is indeed how the procedure works and I am seeking clarification on this, it would seem unlikely that Interpol would say they had made a mistake, since they would have been responding to a request from one of their members, which in this case would have been the UAE.
Furthermore there is no documentary evidence that I know of at present to back Campo's claim that Interpol has admitted making an error.
Were Interpol to admit making a mistake in a case like this, then they could presumably lay themselves open to being sued for damage to reputation etc.
I await the responses from Interpol and Campo's lawyer with interest.
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