The millionaire businessman says that the plantations are for personal purposes because he consumes them for medicinal purposes
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Canadian millionaire Guy Laliberté , founder of the Circus of the Sun, was accused Wednesday of possession and cultivation of narcotics in Nukutepipi, his private atoll of French Polynesia. After a few hours held, the businessman, a native of Quebec (Canada), was released from the Palace of Justice in Papeete, according to his lawyer Me Piriou.
Laliberté, whose fortune is estimated at 1.37 million, is suspected of growing marijuana plants in a locked container in his private Nukutepipi atoll, in the Tuamotu archipelago.
"No traffic charges have been withheld against him," his company Lune Rouge (Red Moon) said in a statement.
Under French law, the employer could be sentenced to ten years in prison. Although his lawyer has alleged that the cannabis plants found are for "strictly personal" purposes because he consumes them for medicinal purposes. "This case is a dreadful banality ... There are a dozen pakalolo [Polynesian marijuana name] plants grown for medical and personal consumption," said the millionaire's lawyer.
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