Le Monde, 27 November 2010
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, former minister of culture, in turn, is implicated in the case of attacks in Karachi. In a survey of the World (to be read in the subscriber edition of the site), a former member of the cabinet of Francois Leotard, Defense Minister Edouard Balladur, said Donnedieu de Vabres, then special adviser to the Minister, was the backbone of the establishment of commissions on contracts and Agosta Sawari II.
These contracts have resulted in the payment of money towards Lebanese and Saudi intermediaries, imposed at the last minute. In principle, these committees are likely to promote the sale of submarines and frigates, were legal until 2000. But in this case, the court suspects that some of these commissions, an amount higher than usual, have given rise to rétrocommissions, a return of some money in France, where he have been used to finance some parties are illegal.
First question, the Prime Minister at the time, Edouard Balladur, whose accounts of presidential campaign of 1995 were marred by irregularities, but still validated by the Constitutional Council, as Le Monde reported in its edition of November 25 (read in the edition subscribers). Heard under the seal of secrecy defense by a parliamentary commission in the spring, Edouard Balladur had established, as revealed by Saturday, November 27 the Sunday newspaper, he was not aware of the commissions on sales. Chirac's
Several, including Dominique de Villepin and Charles Millon, told the court how Jacques Chirac, his election in 1995, had ordered an investigation into the sale of military equipment. Illegally, multiple personalities, including the defense minister Edouard Balladur, Francois Leotard, has been tapped. The investigation by the DGSE allowed Chirac's confirmation of having "strong suspicion" in the words of Dominique de Villepin, rétrocommissions illegal.
Jacques Chirac would then, according to them, ordered to stop paying commissions. To "clean up politics", according to Dominique de Villepin, or more prosaically, according to other sources, to end what Mr. Chirac saw it as the "war chest of Balladur. That case, which would have been total in 2000, could be behind the attack against the French in Karachi in 2002, which killed 11 of our countrymen.
"RÉTROCOMMISSIONS"
Le Monde on Saturday revealed testimony of Patrice Molle, Reeve and former member of the DGSE (the French foreign intelligence service). The man worked in the cabinet of Francois Leotard to the defense. After Jacques Chirac in power and Francois Leotard replaced by Charles Millon, M. Molle was part of senior officials tapped by the services.
He said he heard about these plays, but said: "I had nothing to hide. All Paris knows who imposed the interim Lebanese File Agosta, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres treated all this directly, in person he was referring to the minister. The rétrocommissions, it does not pass through the cabinet official, it has played in parallel circuits. "
The prosecution puts Donnedieu de Vabres the center of the game also asked by Le Monde, he acknowledges that managed these contracts, but legally: "Obviously, I received emissaries, I organized a dinner with Benazir Bhutto, I went to Saudi Arabia as an envoy of the Minister, I met with intermediaries. But we are not imposing the interim. They were taxed by country, "he promises.
version contradicted by number of rooms and stories, which show that both intermediate and Abdulraman Takkiendine Ziad al-Asir were imposed at the initiative of France and even the Department defense.
The revelations of the World also questioned the testimony of Dominique de Villepin. The then secretary general of the Elysee Palace denied to the judges, Messrs.. Leotard and Donnedieu de Vabres have been heard.
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