aujourd’hui<\/a>, le d\u00e9partement de la Justice (DoJ) est en conversation avec le Serious Fraud Office (SFO) britannique pour d\u00e9terminer la possibilit\u00e9 d’une telle action.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe US Department of Justice (DoJ) is in talks to establish whether it can launch a formal inquiry into alleged bribery and corruption in BAE Systems, The Times has learnt. Mike O’Brien, the Solicitor-General, acknowledged that the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has met the DoJ to discuss allegations of corrupt practices by BAE.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe DoJ is understood to be looking into whether it has the jurisdiction to pursue BAE over payments allegedly made to win defence contracts from foreign governments. The British Government terminated a similar investigation by the SFO in December amid fears that it would cause a breakdown in relations with Saudi Arabia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe SFO has six continuing investigations into BAE, involving contracts won from South Africa, Chile, Romania, Tanzania, Qatar and the Czech Republic. Last week it emerged that an official at the US Embassy in London had complained formally to the British Government over the decision to stop the SFO’s Saudi investigation.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLa situation est non seulement int\u00e9ressante, mais exceptionnellement int\u00e9ressante. On voit le SFO, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 bloqu\u00e9 dans son enqu\u00eate sur BAE par le gouvernement britannique d’une mani\u00e8re brutale, consult\u00e9 par le DoJ. Une sorte de passage de relais, ou du flambeau de la justice, qui en dit long, une fois de plus, sur les us et coutumes des special relationships<\/em>. Si le DoJ parvient \u00e0 trouver un motif d’inculpation, BAE tombe sous le coup du Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Les peines pr\u00e9vues sont s\u00e9v\u00e8res : non seulement de lourdes amendes mais, surtout, la possibilit\u00e9 d’une d\u00e9cision interdisant tout contrat commercial entre le gouvernement des USA et BAE. Il s’agirait alors d’une situation vraiment extraordinaire, BAE \u00e9tant la septi\u00e8me entreprise du march\u00e9 de la d\u00e9fense (commandes du Pentagone) aux USA. C’est \u00e9videmment toute la strat\u00e9gie de l’am\u00e9ricanisation de BAE qui serait mise en question.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 2 mai 2007 \u00e0 09H02<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La situation est int\u00e9ressante : les USA semblent de plus en plus d\u00e9termin\u00e9s \u00e0 lancer des poursuites contre BAE, s’il s’av\u00e8re que les conditions juridiques le permettent. Actuellement, selon le Times d’aujourd’hui, le d\u00e9partement de la Justice (DoJ) est en conversation avec le Serious Fraud Office (SFO) britannique pour d\u00e9terminer la possibilit\u00e9 d’une telle action.… <\/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":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3792,6642,6640,6641,6219,4364],"class_list":["post-68760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bae","tag-corruptioon","tag-doj","tag-fraude","tag-sfo","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68760","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=68760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}