ce matin<\/a>, que cette enqu\u00eate pourrait \u00e9galement porter sur des individus et conduire \u00e0 des demandes d’extradition de dirigeants de la firme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abJeremy Summers, a partner specialising in corruption cases at the law firm Russell Jones & Walker, warned that US lawyers would not hesitate in seeking the extradition of BAE executives suspected of wrongdoing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe investigation may start with BAE’s compliance systems but it will also look at individuals, which takes the company into the territory of the 2003 Extradition Act, Mr Summers said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe warned that the investigation into BAE had parallels with the case of the NatWest Three, the three senior bankers who were extradited to the US to answer charges British prosecutors had decided not to pursue. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into Al Yamamah last November, after warnings that national security issues were at stake.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMr Summers warned that BAE executives were very vulnerable to the US authorities. The Americans do not have to present any sort of prima facie evidence in an extradition case, he said. Once the UK courts are satisfied that an allegation has been made and that they have the right person, that’s pretty much it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe DoJ investigation also raises questions over BAE’s business interests in the US, including the \u00a32bn takeover of Armor Holdings, which has not yet been formally approved by US authorities. The company depends on the US for more than two-fifths of its revenue.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 27 juin 2007 \u00e0 08H44<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
D’une fa\u00e7on officielle et solennelle, le minist\u00e8re US de la justice (DoJ) vient de lancer une enqu\u00eate sur BAE, pour les all\u00e9gations de corruption contre ce consortium britannique fortement am\u00e9ricanis\u00e9. BAE a fait une annonce en bourse et ses actions ont chut\u00e9 de 8% hier. Bien \u00e9videmment, les all\u00e9gations de corruption dans le cadre des… <\/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":[3792,3858,6640,4739,4364],"class_list":["post-68941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bae","tag-corruption","tag-doj","tag-enquete","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68941","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=68941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}