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WASHINGTON--Congressional investigators, relying on Swiss bank records and other material provided by businessman Albert Hakim, have confirmed the diversion of more than $1 million in Iranian arms sale profits to Contras rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, sources said late Thursday...
...Hakim was questioned under a limited grant of immunity in Paris on Monday, and the material he provided gave investigators a major break in their effort to track money from the Middle East to Central America...
Walsh announced he planned to ask a court Monday, for the first time in his investigation, to delay a congressional grant of immunity to businessman Albert Hakim for the legal limit of 20 days...
Congressional sources have suggested that their motive in granting immunity to Hakim, 50, was the expectation that he will provide some of the needed Swiss bank account records...
Walsh said he would use the 20-day period, if granted, "to try to bring together whatever material we had" involving Hakim...