L'Express, 23/11/2010
of Le Parisien on Tuesday reveals that the judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke raided there for ten days to the Department of Budget.
Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke recently raided the Budget Ministry in Bercy where he received the notes on "opaque financial arrangements" set up around the contract of sale of Agosta submarines to Pakistan, said Le Parisien on Tuesday / Today in France.
"There are a dozen days in the utmost discretion, the judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke raided the Directorate General of Taxes, the Budget Ministry in Bercy," said the daily.
Justice seeks in particular to establish if there is a link between stopping from 1995 the payment of commissions under the arms deal with Pakistan and the Karachi attack in 2002 that killed 15 people including 11 French.
She is also investigating the payment of rétrocommissions which could pay for the presidential campaign of Edouard Balladur in 1995.
"During their search, the judge's financial hub would have laid hands on documents extremely interesting," wrote Le Parisien, which states that "it would be handwritten notes, unsigned, dating from late 2006.
These notes "confirm and detail the opaque financial arrangements put in place around Contract Agosta including traffic pattern of the money to go (to Pakistan) as the back (towards France), "the newspaper said.
The contract for the sale of three Agosta submarines to Pakistan in September 1994 is at the heart of a matter of commissions and possible rétrocommissions currently shaking the French political life.
Information "has everything a bomb"
In these notes, he "would question several countries (...) in which funds flow, "said Le Parisien.
The paper quoted a" source familiar with the matter "that" these handwritten notes were addressed to (...) Nicolas Sarkozy, then Interior Minister Jacques Chirac and actively campaign for the 2007 presidential election.
This information provides the Parisian, "everything has a time bomb."
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