Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – TSR, Swiss public television, will run a documentary 5 February following its own investigation into charges by Colombian authorities that Jean-Pierre Gontard paid CHF500,000 in ransom money to Farc rebels in order to gain the release of Novartis employees taken hostage.

TSR says its report will show that Gontard did not pay any money but rather that Novartis did and that the amount was higher than the CHF500,000. Gontard and the Swiss foreign affairs office have both vehemently denied that he paid any ransom money. The Temps Present show, to be aired at 19:30, will show for the first time film footage of Gontard meeting a group of rebels in the jungle.

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