PARIS, June 21: French investigators are claiming that “part” of the $8 million in currency found last Tuesday (June 17) at People’s Mujahedeen headquarters outside Paris comes from Saddam Hussein’s war chest.

“The currency from Saddam’s war chest,” indicates a French judicial source in Saturday’s issue of Le Figaro “was indeed bundled up in Iraqi newspapers dated April 13, 2003, four days following the fall of Baghdad” to US forces.

Le Figaro also reported that French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the country’s principal anti-terrorist magistrate has decided to “give greater place to the financial ‘angle’ of this affair.”

Le Figaro also quotes a police source close to the investigation as saying that the study by 40 specialised investigators in financial flows who’ve been combing through records found at People’s Mujahedeen headquarters, has resulted in their establishing that an unnamed bank in Yemen served as a funnelling point for much of the cash found at the headquarters.