as the families of the victims suspectent it discount
November 29th 2010 -
Olivier Toscer
In his time, the Constitutional council charged to control the financing of the presidential campaigns had certainly validated the Balladur countryside. But, last spring, to the favour of a searching to the Public records, the central brigade of fight against corruption acting on behalf of judge Renaud Van Ruymbecke falls on an overpowering document compiled by the three rapporteurs charged to prepare the decision of the Wise ones. The report/ratio raises initially the character outstandard of the amount received in cash by Balladur, 26 times superior with that declared, for example, by Lionel Jospin at the time of its own candidacy to the presidential one. It notes then the incapacity of the Balladur candidate to produce the least document in proof of these alleged sales of teeshirts, gadgets and other collections carried out at the time of its meetings. The former Prime Minister progressively ensured to have accumulated these receipts in a trunk before pouring them in only once on his account at the end of the campaign. “This allegation is obviously contradicted by the operation of the account”, observe, scrupulous, the rapporteurs, before being ironical: ” One sees a former minister for finances badly letting sleep up to ten million in a trunk instead of placing them to recover some interest… “. For all these reasons, they preached “the rejection” of the Balladur account. An opinion which will not be finally followed by the Council. “The debates were long and particularly difficult” discount, recognizes old Wise, before being cut off behind the secrecies from the deliberations. “I do not have to remember any more precise, ensures, as for him school, in Nouvel Observateur, Roland Dumas, then president of known as Conseil. But, in the lawsuits, our line was not to call into question the legality of the accounts if the candidate had been largely beaten, which was the case of Balladur”. Generous final discharge which made it possible Edouard Balladur to be duly refunded of all its expenditure by the State.
Did the Constitutional council thus bleach black money of the retrocommissions Nothing makes it possible to affirm it. Mezzo voce automatic, old the balladuriens susurrent today that the ten million in liquid could come in fact… from the famous special funds. “The sum is compatible with the amounts which circulated in Matignon”, recognizes old Balladur cabinet. At the time indeed, these “special funds”, were voted by the Parliament and were completely legally assigned to some extent to whole discretion of the Prime Minister. Was Edouard Balladur used for himself about it to supplement the financing of his presidential campaign The former forever allowed Prime Minister it publicly. And even if this track were one day proven, it would not carry any consequence: justice does not have any latitude to inquire into the destination this money iwc, secrecy by definition.
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On April 26, 1995, three days after the defeat of Edouard Balladur to the first tower of presidential, a mysterious emissary presents himself to the Haussman agency of the Credit du Nord. He carries four full bags to crack of cuts of 100 and 500 francs. There is in all for 10,25 franc million (1,5 million euros). This sum is deposited on the bank account of countryside of the beaten candidate. The following day armani, another payment also in liquid, of 200.000 francs that one, will be carried out on the same Balladur account. From which comes all this cash “Of the collections carried out in the hundreds of public meetings which took place through all the country” as the balladuriens support it Or is the product of agreements of corruption in margin of the sale of three submarines in Pakistan, as the families of the victims suspectent it