ASBESTOS UPDATE: Turin Court Seeks 20-Year Terms in Eternit Case
COMPANIES:
Judicial officials said that a court in Turin, Italy, on July 4,
2011, sought jail terms of 20 years against Stephan Schmidheiny,
the former Swiss owner of the Eternit construction firm, and Jean-
Louis Marie Ghislain de Cartier de Marchienne,…
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