Le Monde, 19 November 2010
The question is at the heart of the matter . In the case of a sale of weapons abroad, it was legal until 2000 to pay intermediaries involved in facilitating the negotiation with the purchasing country.
These "commissions" - the official term, but they are akin to bribery, kickbacks legal - can represent large sums.
Under the contract of sale of Agosta submarines, both intermediate and Takkedine Ziad Abdul Rahman Al-Asir, recovered 10.25% of total sales, which amounted to 5.4 billion francs (826 million).
The two men were to receive even more on another contract, this time in the frigates for Saudi Arabia: they were promised 18% of the contract amount, which was about 19 billion francs (about 3 billion euros ). A
rétrocommission, illegal practice, is for the seller to offer more commission than necessary, then recover to its advantage from the middle part of the sums expended by the State.
In the case of Karachi, it is suspected that the commissions paid to the two intermediate gave rise to rétrocommissions, allegedly financed the presidential campaign of Edouard Balladur in 1995.
Stopping the promised money would have led the attack against the French in Karachi in 2002. Samuel Lawrence
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