Captain Peune, who had commanded the bomb-ship chartered to ferry Thompson and his staff from Corfu to Trieste, wrote a letter to answer the charges of pillage.
The arrest of the Rigases is the first case among the recent string of corporate scandals in which the government has brought criminal charges against executives accused of pillaging their own companies.
"My life has changed dramatically," said John J. Rigas, 78, the founder and former chairman of Adelphia Communications, the cable company, who has been charged, along with his two sons, of pillaging $1 billion from the company.
Therefore, in legal terms, stakeholders can establish when an act of unlawful displacement should include an additional charge of pillage, if they can establish the following; a).
Meanwhile, a top Gbagbo ally accused pro-Ouattara forces of pillaging the homes of political rivals.
After years of pillaging communities they once protected, the rebels have undoubtedly alienated many supporters.
At national and regional level, at least 130 politicians of all stripes are facing charges ranging from pillaging state coffers to handing family members plum jobs.
Mr. Taylor, 60, has been charged with pillaging, but his hidden accounts and assets are also central to his prosecution on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
John Frow, a university professor in Australia, has charged Graham Swift with pillaging William Faulkner.
Spanish authorities have arrested a American man on charges of enslavement and diamond pillaging during Sierra Leone's civil war, a victims' association said on Saturday.
