Breast implant company's founder charged, attorney says NEW: "Money will not bring me back my health, it will not erase the scars," implant wearer says Mas has been released on bail but cannot leave the country, the attorney says Paris (CNN) -- The founder of a French company that makes breast implants linked to a health scare was charged Friday with involuntary injury, his attorney told a CNN television affiliate. PIP Director Claude Couty was arrested at about the same time as Mas in nearby La Seyne-sur-Mer, and investigators searched his home, according to CNN affiliate France 2. Joelle Manighetti, 55, from Paris, who got PIP implants after breast cancer said she was relieved authorities were finally starting to take action -- although she was disappointed it had taken so long. "Too bad we do not have a justice system like they do in the United States which allows the accumulation of penalties ... because the small punishment he will receive for what he did to 300,000 to 400,000 women, is not much compared to what we have suffered because of him," she said. Manighetti said she would like to tell Mas face-to-face that she is not bringing charges in order to get compensation, but because he should be punished for what he has done. Mas has been reported as saying in a police interview last year that the women who were suing over PIP implants were doing it for the money. "Money will not bring me back my health, it will not erase the scars both physical and mental that he has made on all our lives," Manighetti said. The married mother-of-three, who has been a health care professional for more than 30 years, has set up a blog to provide information and support to other women who've had PIP implants, she says. A French attorney representing women with implants welcomed the arrest, but said it could have come sooner. He will undoubtedly say there was no problem with the gel, but that is not his decision to make.