Contractor’s Wife Held Over Suspect Funds
The wife of an American contractor accused of cheating the U.S. government in Iraq has been detained in Germany on suspicion of money laundering, a prosecutor said.
Jacqueline Battles was held after a bank reported “suspicious transactions” two months ago, prosecutor David Kirkpatrick said. She has not been charged.
German investigators seized about $1 million in suspect funds, said Kirkpatrick, a prosecutor in the city of Darmstadt.
In March, a jury in the United States ordered contractors Mike Battles and Scott Custer to pay $10 million for bilking the government.
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