{"id":71697,"date":"2010-03-23T09:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T09:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/le-tanker-canard-lavocat-kirkland-se-fache\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T09:31:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T09:31:42","slug":"le-tanker-canard-lavocat-kirkland-se-fache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/le-tanker-canard-lavocat-kirkland-se-fache\/","title":{"rendered":"Le tanker<\/em>-\u201ccanard\u201d: l’avocat Kirkland se f\u00e2che"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le tanker<\/em>-canard: l’avocat Kirkland se f\u00e2che<\/h4>\n

Nous avons bien l’usage de toutes nos rubriques pour suivre les \u00e9tonnantes p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties de l’affaire UAC\/Russie soumissionnant ou pas dans le march\u00e9 des ravitailleurs en vol de l’USAF. Apr\u00e8s notre commentaire de ce 23 mars 2010<\/a> dans notre Bloc-Notes<\/em>, voici une nouvelle int\u00e9ressante donn\u00e9e par Defense News<\/em> en date du 22 mars 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDefense News<\/em> a obtenu de l’avocat John Kirkland une lettre qu’il a exp\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 UAC\/Russie le 21 mars 2010. Kirkland donne d’autres d\u00e9tails. Pour lui, l’affaire devait \u00eatre lanc\u00e9e et il s’est pass\u00e9 quelque chose \u00e0 Moscou ce week-end qui a conduit \u00e0 son annulation. D’autres d\u00e9tails cit\u00e9s par Defense News<\/em> se retrouvent dans le Seattle News<\/em> cit\u00e9 dans notre commentaire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abUAC has followed that denial with a March 22 statement on their Web site: UAC is not planning to take part in the tanker tender or set up a joint venture, Alexey I. Fedorov, UAC president and chairman of its executive board, says. In the UAC statement, Fedorov denies knowing Kirkland. Kirkland’s March 21 letter, however, paints a very different picture of the attorney’s relationship with UAC.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe denial, he said, is directly contrary to everything my clients and I have been told by everyone in the Russian Federation, Kirkland wrote in the letter. As you know from my prior written communications to you over the last several months, we have been provided with multiple assurances including via the attached official certified correspondence from UAC, and handwritten comments from Mr. Dmitriev that the Joint Venture Cooperation Agreement for the KC-X Tanker Modernization Program would be executed shortly.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe letter is addressed to Sergei Ivanov, chairman of the board of UAC, and Federov, as well as two officials from Russia’s Federal Service of Military Technical Cooperation, Mikhail Dmitriev and Alexander Shishkin.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWe have been repeatedly advised that a presidential decree has been issued from President Dmitry Medvedev, and that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, Mr. Ivanov and Mr. Dmitriev have all approved the project, Kirkland’s letter says.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbKirkland wrote, This weekend<\/em> [March 20 and 21<\/em>], I have been on calls with Russian and UAC officials, including a Russian general and Mr. Yuri Grudinin, director of regional aircraft directorate at UAC-Civil Aircraft. During those calls, they all confirmed again that the agreement would be signed this Monday morning, March 22, he wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbKirkland provided a copy of that letter, along with several supporting documents, to Defense News. Kirkland also said he taped conference calls with Russian military and UAC officials<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAsked March 22 whether he feels he has been lied to or duped, Kirkland wrote in an e-mail: I can’t imagine that’s possible. What would be the point? Seems more likely that something changed over the weekend.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tKirkland cite \u00e9galement un message venant de Russie selon lequel EADS aurait offert $350.000 \u00e0 UAC\/Russie pour ne pas participer \u00e0 la comp\u00e9tition. EADS a d\u00e9menti l’information. Kirkland affirme \u00e9galement que le Pentagone et l’USAF ont \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9s de l’intention de UAC\/Russie d’\u00e9tablir une coop\u00e9ration avec une firme US, World Aviation Maintenance Company \u00e0 Omaha, dans le Nebraska. Pas de commentaires, pour l’instant, du Pentagone<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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