The jars of wine Pakistani President

This morning, in an annex of the National Assembly, the parliamentary information mission on "the conditions of negotiations and the contract of sale of three Agosta submarines to Pakistan 90" receives the families of victims of the Karachi attack. Eleven employees of the Directorate of Naval Construction (DCN) died May 8, 2002 in Karachi, while they cooperated in Pakistan under this contract. In the search for causes of this attack, the judge no longer focuses on the scenario of a bombing of Al-Qaeda, it explores two other ways. On the one hand, the hypothesis of an attack in connection with kickbacks unfulfilled. On the other hand, the hypothesis of a punishing attack from negotiations in 2001 by France to sell submarines to India, the traditional enemy - an event held by an intermediary of DCN, Jean - Marie Boivin, during a recent hearing revealed by Mediapart. In both cases, "the importance of the topic justifies parliamentarians seek to know the negotiations surrounding the contract, and details of its implementation," said MP (PS) Bernard Cazeneuve, rapporteur of the mission information and deputy mayor of Cherbourg - stronghold of the DCN. Reasonable goal ... when all the French actors of the contract of 825 million lift the veil on the pattern of corruption that underlies it. For malpractices that have accompanied the military-industrial back to top executive. Locally, Pakistan, Liberation has received documents showing that the current president, Ali Zardari, has been corrupted to the tune of 4.3 million dollars for this contract with France.

Accounts. Explanation: between October 1993 and November 1996, the First Minister, Benazir Bhutto, has many official duties to her husband, Ali Zardari. The latter took the opportunity to require committees in all directions, in agreement with his wife. A feature that earned him the nickname "Mister 10%" and cause his downfall. Arrested December 19, 1996, he was jailed for protecting a drug trafficker cons compensation, according to a letter of attorney from Islamabad we obtained copies. It also mentions several bank accounts opened in Europe. From 1997, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB, so Court of fiscal discipline) undertook to identify assets held abroad by the couple Bhutto-Zardari. Snap cooperation with the Swiss and the British. According to the Office of the Swiss magistrate Vincent Fournier, we asked these requests Pakistani mention the contracts that may have generated kickbacks in favor of Ali Zardari, whose contract submarines of the DCN. Four years later, these efforts are successful.

One report indicates that the NAB April 12, 2001 the British administration in Islamabad transmits almost 22 000 documents on financial transactions Ali Zardari. During the 2001 financial procedures hardened against him. All documents sent by London show he has received large sums from a businessman of Lebanese origin, Abdulrahman al-Asir. This was imposed as an intermediary "by political power" in the French Agreement of September 21, 1994 for the sale of submarines, according to a former head of the DCN heard in Paris. An order from the British judge Lawrence Collins of October 6, 2006 lists the transfers sent by El-Asir to Zardari: 1.3 million dollars in two times, between 15 and August 30, 1994, a month before the signing of contract. Then 1.2 million and $ 1.8 million dollars a year later, between August 22 and September 1, 1995. Judge Collins stated that these payments correspond to operations of corruption. A few months before Zardari's return to power, all prosecutions and seizures, Switzerland, has been abandoned, April 9, 2008.

Military. But the current President of Pakistan is one of the beneficiaries of these flows validated from Paris. According to the hearings of financial DCN, Commissions take a total of 10% of the market for submarines. Divided into two channels: 4% for policies (including Ali Zardari) and 6% for the military. NAB reports collected in Karachi indicate that the Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Navy in 1994, Mansoor Ul-Haq, has benefited from corruption. Arrested in April 2001, he was forced to return nearly $ 7 million related to the contract submarines.