{"id":68312,"date":"2006-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/16\/une-action-legale-contre-la-decision-darreter-lenquete-sur-yamamah-en-plus-de-la-crainte-et-de-lhonneur-des-saoudiens\/"},"modified":"2006-12-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T00:00:00","slug":"une-action-legale-contre-la-decision-darreter-lenquete-sur-yamamah-en-plus-de-la-crainte-et-de-lhonneur-des-saoudiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/16\/une-action-legale-contre-la-decision-darreter-lenquete-sur-yamamah-en-plus-de-la-crainte-et-de-lhonneur-des-saoudiens\/","title":{"rendered":"Une action l\u00e9gale contre la d\u00e9cision d’arr\u00eater l’enqu\u00eate sur Yamamah<\/em>? \u2014 En plus de la crainte et de l’\u201chonneur\u201d des Saoudiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

En restera-t-on \u00e0 la d\u00e9cision abrupte d’abandonner l’enqu\u00eate du SFO sur le scandale Yamamah<\/em>? Le Guardian<\/em>, qui est toujours le relais privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 de groupes oppos\u00e9s aux ventes d’armes, donne aujourd’hui<\/a> des indications selon lesquelles des actions juridiques ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cid\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe government’s controversial decision to drop a Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations that Saudi officials were bribed to win a lucrative order for a British arms firm could be challenged in the high court, it emerged last night.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAnti-arms trade campaigners yesterday instructed lawyers to consider a legal action against Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, after he halted the SFO inquiry into allegations of corruption by officials from BAE Systems when sealing the Al-Yamamah deal in the 1980s.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Campaign against the Arms Trade and the Corner House, a social and environmental justice group, believe the grounds for the decision made after the prime minister warned it was against Britain’s security and foreign policy interests – could be subject to judicial review. David Pannick QC has been hired.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development also signalled that it would launch its own investigation. Britain is a signatory to the 30-nation grouping’s anti-bribery convention.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPour l’instant, il s’agit moins de savoir o\u00f9 peuvent \u00e9ventuellement mener ces actions, si elles sont effectivement conduites, que de voir leurs effets sur les n\u00e9gociations entre Britanniques et Saoudiens concernant l’achat de 72 Typhoon<\/em> selon le sch\u00e9ma Yamamah<\/em>. Les dirigeants saoudiens sont d\u00e9crits comme absolument d\u00e9cha\u00een\u00e9s dans cette affaire et, \u00e9galement, tr\u00e8s inquiets de ne risquer aucune inculpation. La question se pose de savoir s’ils ne vont pas craindre d’une fa\u00e7on disproportionn\u00e9e la possibilit\u00e9 d’actions l\u00e9gales contre la d\u00e9cision d’arr\u00eater l’enqu\u00eate du SFO. Les projets d’action juridique signal\u00e9s par le Guardian<\/em> sont d’ailleurs aussi bien per\u00e7us comme tactiques, pour interf\u00e9rer sur les n\u00e9gociations du contrat Typhoon<\/em> dans ce sens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tConcernant ces n\u00e9gociations, il reste par ailleurs la grande inconnue de savoir comment l’on pourrait n\u00e9gocier sans risques consid\u00e9rables risques qui effraient les Saoudiens un nouveau contrat type Yamamah<\/em> avec les habituelles clauses secr\u00e8tes de commission. La v\u00e9ritable question qui se pose aux Britanniques est la suivante : n’ont-ils pas, dans cette affaire, perdu la confiance des Saoudiens pour ce type de transactions? Et il n’est pas question, pour les m\u00eames Saoudiens, d’abandonner les commissions. C’est encore plus, on pourra juger paradoxal dans ce cas l’emploi de certains mots, une question d’honneur et de ne pas perdre la face que la question de l’argent lui-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 16 d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 06H12<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

En restera-t-on \u00e0 la d\u00e9cision abrupte d’abandonner l’enqu\u00eate du SFO sur le scandale Yamamah? Le Guardian, qui est toujours le relais privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 de groupes oppos\u00e9s aux ventes d’armes, donne aujourd’hui des indications selon lesquelles des actions juridiques ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cid\u00e9es. \u00abThe government’s controversial decision to drop a Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations that Saudi… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2756,3621,3858,6221,6178,6219,4364],"class_list":["post-68312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-action","tag-confiance","tag-corruption","tag-legale","tag-saoudiens","tag-sfo","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}