World music star held over immigration racket

World music star held over immigration racket
By Alex Duval Smith in Paris

21 February 2003

One of Africa's bestselling musicians, Papa Wemba, was being questioned by French police yesterday over an immigration racket that may have allowed hundreds of people to settle in Europe illegally by paying about £2,000 each for musicians' visas.
Read more at: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=380135
News from independent.co.uk

• article submitted by: Stephan Siedler, WOMEX