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French Alps shootings: Salford man quizzed over alleged fraud | French Alps shootings: Salford man quizzed over alleged fraud |
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A man has been questioned on suspicion of attempting to access bank accounts of an engineer murdered in the French Alps. | |
Police are investigating claims that someone tried to get into the accounts of Saad al-Hilli by telephone after his death on 5 September. | |
About 100 officers in Britain and France are investigating the murders of 50-year-old engineer Hilli, his wife Iqbal, 47, her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, and a passing cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, in a gun attack near Chevaline. The couple's four-year-old daughter, Zeena, lay undiscovered under her mother's body for eight hours after the shooting, while her seven-year-old sister, Zainab, was found with serious injures after being shot and beaten. | |
French investigators searched the Hilli family home in Claygate, Surrey, in the wake of the deaths. | |
It emerged on Sunday that later in September, Surrey police asked the Greater Manchester force to arrest a man at an address in Alban Street, Salford, on suspicion of fraud offences. | |
Nigerian-born Abiodun David John was questioned and later released on bail pending further inquiries. He is due to answer his bail on Tuesday in Surrey. | |
John, who has since moved to London, has denied any wrongdoing. | John, who has since moved to London, has denied any wrongdoing. |
He told the Manchester Evening News: "I believe that people have been tapping into my phone and accessing my internet. | He told the Manchester Evening News: "I believe that people have been tapping into my phone and accessing my internet. |
"When the police came into my house I did not know what they were talking about. | |
"I am totally innocent. I do not know where this whole thing has come from." | |
A spokesman for Surrey police said: "A 32-year-old man from the Greater Manchester area was arrested on September 25 in connection with an ongoing fraud investigation being carried out by Surrey police. | A spokesman for Surrey police said: "A 32-year-old man from the Greater Manchester area was arrested on September 25 in connection with an ongoing fraud investigation being carried out by Surrey police. |
"He was released on bail until November 13 pending further inquiries." | "He was released on bail until November 13 pending further inquiries." |