Cela va devenir maintenant une tradition. La rentr\u00e9e pour BAE, c’est plut\u00f4t les nouvelles concernant les diverses plaintes et enqu\u00eates que le contrat de 72 Typhoon<\/em> sign\u00e9 par les Saoudiens il y a une semaine<\/a>. (Importante mesure prise par les Saoudo-Britanniques : au diable Yamamah<\/em> le mal-nomm\u00e9, le contrat g\u00e9ant de \u00a34,2 milliards est nomm\u00e9 Salam<\/em>, qui signifie paix en bon fran\u00e7ais. Le mois prochain, Prince Adallah vient \u00e0 Londres en visite officielle, visiter ses sujets.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe Guardian<\/em>, fid\u00e8le \u00e0 sa tradition et \u00e0 sa sp\u00e9cialisation, fait de nouvelles r\u00e9v\u00e9lations. Il nous annonce aujourd’hui<\/a> que le gouvernement travailliste met une r\u00e9elle mauvaise volont\u00e9 \u00e0 aider les enqu\u00eateurs US du minist\u00e8re de la justice. Certaines sources europ\u00e9ennes croient que les Britanniques ont obtenu certaines promesses de GW Bush, notamment en \u00e9change de l’am\u00e9nagement de leur d\u00e9part d’Irak (envoi de troupes UK \u00e0 la fronti\u00e8re iranienne). Mais ce march\u00e9 vaut ce qu’il vaut. Le d\u00e9partement de la justice US est en pleine crise apr\u00e8s le changement de ministre (d\u00e9mission de Gonzales) et la bureaucratie a tendance \u00e0 poursuivre une sorte de chemin autonome par rapport \u00e0 d’\u00e9ventuelles consignes du pouvoir.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tDans tous les cas, l’article du Guardian<\/em> met en \u00e9vidence le caract\u00e8re compl\u00e8tement inhabituel des r\u00e9ctions britanniques vis-\u00e0-vis des enqu\u00eateurs US, malgr\u00e9 les special relationships<\/em>. En voici un extrait:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abMore than two months after an official request for mutual legal assistance (MLA) was received from Washington, the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, has not yet allowed it to be acted upon. The US investigators believe the British are being obstructive.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut legal sources said yesterday that the inquiry team had not been deterred by the UK government’s hostile attitude. Some have already begun taking statements from key British witnesses.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe formal request for assistance came from the US department of justice earlier in the summer, but Ms Smith has refused to pass it on to the Serious Fraud Office for processing in the normal way.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThis is unusual behaviour towards a major ally, with whom legal cooperation is normally automatic. Last night, the Home Office said its failure to pass on the request was not unprecedented, but could not give any example of similar behaviour.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe SFO possesses important files on BAE gained from its own major inquiry into \u00a31bn of payments to Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia and other Swiss bank accounts linked to the Saudi royal family. But SFO investigators are not allowed to speak to US authorities until Home Office officials forward the paperwork.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tOn ajoutera des nouvelles venues du Financial Times<\/em>, d’abord venues de la Tanzanie, concernant une nouvelle enqu\u00eate<\/a> contre BAE sur une vente de radar, puis, plus original, la d\u00e9cision<\/a> d’un des actionnaires US de BAE, un fond de pension du Michigan, de porter plainte contre la direction pour avoir donn\u00e9 $2 mlliards de commission \u00e0 Prince Bandar et ainsi r\u00e9duit d’autant les b\u00e9n\u00e9fices. L’enqu\u00eae men\u00e9e \u00e0 partir de cette plainte pourrait r\u00e9v\u00e9ler d’autres malversations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCi-apr\u00e8s, le texte annon\u00e7ant cette action:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abDirectors of BAE Systems have been targeted by a US lawsuit from a Michigan pension fund seeking the return to the company of more than $2bn, the amount it alleges was diverted in bribes in connection with a giant Saudi warplane deal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe suit alleges that the board failed to enforce anti-corruption policies. As well as past and former directors, the suit targets Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia and officers of Riggs Bank in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 21 septembre 2007 \u00e0 17H31<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cela va devenir maintenant une tradition. La rentr\u00e9e pour BAE, c’est plut\u00f4t les nouvelles concernant les diverses plaintes et enqu\u00eates que le contrat de 72 Typhoon sign\u00e9 par les Saoudiens il y a une semaine. (Importante mesure prise par les Saoudo-Britanniques : au diable Yamamah le mal-nomm\u00e9, le contrat g\u00e9ant de \u00a34,2 milliards est nomm\u00e9… <\/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":[3792,5667,3858,3228,6640,5733,6863,4364],"class_list":["post-69247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bae","tag-bandar","tag-corruption","tag-crise","tag-doj","tag-tension","tag-usa-uk","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69247","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=69247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}