PARIS -- A police official says the former top executive of a French company at the center of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide has been arrested.
The police official says Jean-Claude Mas - who ran the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese - was detained at his residence in the Mediterranean coastal town of Six-Fours-Les-Plages shortly before dawn.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the matter is officially in the hands of judicial investigators.
The implants were pulled from the market in several countries in and beyond Europe amid fears they could rupture and leak silicone into the body.
(Associated Press)