Sarkozy, L’Oreal, Tapie, Gaddafi and French corruption

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Sarkozy, L’Oreal, Tapie, Gaddafi and French corruption

You may have heard that former French president (from 2007 to 2012) Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to years in prison twice in 2021. But besides appealing, he is set to spend to spend this time with beautiful wife in lavish fashion under house arrest.

I expect that behind the superficial tales for why he was sentenced, there is a bigger corruption scandal that was covered up.
I also expect a connection to Bernard Tapie, who just died...


In March 2021, Sarkozy was sentenced to "prison" (read: house arrest) for 1 year (plus an addition 2 years "suspended") for corruption and influence peddling.

A couple of days ago, Sarkozy was sentenced to another year in "prison" (house arrest) for knowingly spending almost twice the allowed maximum on his election campaign. He spent at least 42.8 million euros, where only 22.5 million euros was allowed. 13 of Sarkozy's co-defendants were also found guilty.
In his trial, he foolishly lied that he didn't know, even though there is written evidence that he was informed.

Sarkozy has already appealed the March ruling and is expected to also appeal the recent jail sentence.
Where did the money come from: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30/...ction-campaign-guilty-verdict-intl/index.html

 

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Have you heard about some recent cover-up story that involves French submarines?

One of Sarkozy's closest friends and best man at his wedding to Carla Bruni in 2008, Nicolas Bazire, in 2011 was charged of taking kickbacks from the sale of submarines to Pakistan in the 1990s, in a scandal that was dubbed the "Karachi affair".
Another long-time friend and adviser to Sarkozy, Thierry Gaubert, was also charged for smuggling the kickbacks into France in suitcases.

Kickbacks from arms sales illegally funded the failed 1995 presidential campaign of former French PM Edouard Balladur.
In another scandal, besides Sarkozy, also former president Jacques Chirac and PM Dominique de Villepin were bribed with briefcases of cash from African leaders: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/22/nicolas-sarkozy-arms-sales-corruption

 

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In 2013, "President Bling-Bling" Nicolas Sarkozy was charged with "exploiting the weakness" of the world's richest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, who suffered from dementia and reportedly gave envelopes stuffed with millions of euros cash to Sarkozy.

Bettencourt had hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away in Swiss accounts and was helped by France’s finance minister Eric Woerth to evade taxes and invest the millions.
Woerth was forced to resign, but it took years before Sarkozy got "sentenced" to years of house arrest (in another corruption case?): http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoc...est-woman-loreal-heiress-liliane-bettencourt/


The reportedly demented Liliane Bettencourt gave François-Marie Banier almost €1 billion worth of gifts.

Tapes were leaked on which her financial adviser instructed the confused Bettencourt to sign cheques for politicians, including Sarkozy.
Bettencourt's former accountant, Claire Thibout, prepared €150,000 in cash for Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign.

Eric Woerth's wife, Florence, was part of the team that managed Bettencourt's riches, a blatant conflict of interest with her husband in charge of collecting tax.
After Sarkozy was elected president, he cut taxes for France's super-rich, giving Bettencourt a €30 million rebate.

The Bettencourt family were majority shareholders in L'Oréal with 31%, followed by Nestlé with 29.8%: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/10/bettencourt-loreal-sarkozy-france

 

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Apparently, Sarkozy received a cool up to 4 million euros ($5.2 million) in cash from the demented billionaire L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.

Also former French President Jacques Chirac was convicted in 2011 of corruption as mayor of Paris, though he ultimately got a two-year "suspended" prison sentence: https://www.france24.com/en/2013032...liane-bettencourt-france-corruption-president
(https://archive.is/FIJcS)

 

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Also in 2013, French business tycoon Bernard Tapie (who recently died) was arrested for "defrauding" the French state with former President Nicolas Sarkozy as a reward for Tapie's support during the 2007 presidential election.

In 2007-8, Tapie and his lawyer visited the Elysee Palace 22 times to discuss the deal with a senior official on Sarkozy’s team. Sarkozy apparently fixed an "independent" 405 million Euros arbitration in Tapie’s favour in July 2008.

The deal was connected to the sale in 1993 of Adidas, then owned by Tapie. Tapie accused the state-owned Credit Lyonnais bank of selling Adidas to itself through offshore shell companies, making a huge profit when it resold the company 2 years later: https://web.archive.org/web/2014010...las-sarkozy-to-defraud-the-state-8671817.html

 

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You may have heard that former French president (from 2007 to 2012) Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to years in prison twice in 2021. But besides appealing, he is set to spend to spend this time with beautiful wife in lavish fashion under house arrest.

I expect that behind the superficial tales for why he was sentenced, there is a bigger corruption scandal that was covered up.
I also expect a connection to Bernard Tapie, who just died...


In March 2021, Sarkozy was sentenced to "prison" (read: house arrest) for 1 year (plus an addition 2 years "suspended") for corruption and influence peddling.

A couple of days ago, Sarkozy was sentenced to another year in "prison" (house arrest) for knowingly spending almost twice the allowed maximum on his election campaign. He spent at least 42.8 million euros, where only 22.5 million euros was allowed. 13 of Sarkozy's co-defendants were also found guilty.
In his trial, he foolishly lied that he didn't know, even though there is written evidence that he was informed.

Sarkozy has already appealed the March ruling and is expected to also appeal the recent jail sentence.
Where did the money come from: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30/...ction-campaign-guilty-verdict-intl/index.html

Sarkozy's legal woes are not over yet as French prosecutors are looking into alleged illegal campaign funding from Libya. Libya's former leader, the late Moammar Gadhafi, allegedly provided Sarkozy's 2007 campaign with millions of euros shipped to Paris in suitcases.​

Maybe Gadhafi should have given cash to the Clinton foundation. He might still be alive.

 

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Maybe Gadhafi should have given cash to the Clinton foundation. He might still be alive.

I really don't understand what happened with Muammar Gaddafi, there have been many, many bogus story on the CIA trying to assassinate him. When in reality he was supported by the CIA for decades...
Gaddafi was very, very close to the British Crown agents called Rothschild, his son - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi - was even in business with Nat Rotschild and (if I remember correctly) Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Here's a story on the secret phone calls between Muammar Gaddafi and then British PM Tony Blair, where he pointed out that removing him would bring a refugee crisis (that's precisely what they wanted of course).
Blair warned the Libyan leader he would die unless he abdicated and Blair said he could engineer a peaceful exit for Gaddafi, “I would like to offer a way out that is peaceful … keep the lines open”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...blair-of-threat-from-opening-door-to-al-qaida

 

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During the Sarkozy-supported NATO air strikes on Libya in 2011, the son of the Libyan dictator, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, accused Nicolas Sarkozy of taking millions from Muammar Gaddafi for his campaigns.

In 2013, Muammar Gaddafi's interpreter, Moftah Missouri, also said Libya financed Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign with $20 million: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22993739

 

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That Libya freedom hero Sarkosy dude, no surprise there.

UK's Iraqi freedom hero Tony Blair allegedly has also been implicated in some sketchy finaacial scandal going by so called Pandora Leaks reports yesterday.. he's just one among numerous other puppets of deep neocons wars profiteers cabal.

 

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On a related note...

In 2007, the young ambitious Emmanuel Macron, started working for New World Order lunatic Jacques Attali as part of the administration of none other than President Nicolas Sarkozy.
After that Macron joined the Rothschild investment bank. In the 1950s, Rothschild had employed Georges Pompidou before he became French president and also had forged close business relationships with Sarkozy before his election.

In 2012, American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer decided to put its infant nutrition division for sale.
Nestlé hires Macron of Rothschild & Co. to buy Pfizer's division. Macron had become acquainted with Nestlé executives when he was working for Attali.
In the end, Nestlé buys the division from Pfizer for $11.9 billion, for which Macron got paid a cool one million euros: https://www.vogon.today/economic-sc...ry-vaccine-with-pfizer-and-nestle/2021/07/17/
(original article in French: https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/econom...ron-le-banquier-de-nestlé-à-l-elysée/43153142)

 

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The following article that for some reason was deleted from the internet in the spring of 2017 (but I found an archived version) is really about an ebola outbreak in Guinea that coincided with UN vaccination programs.
More interesting in the context of this thread are the connections described between the Sarkozy administration, the vaccine producing Sanofi Group controlled by major shareholders L’Oreal (of the Bettencourt family) and the Rothschild Group (controlled by the British Crown), and Medicins Sans Frontieres.
There is also the inevitable Clinton link...

Two vaccination programs were implemented by Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders),
1) The MSF and WHO together distributed the cholera vaccine Shanchol (cholera is of course caused by unclean drinking water, but let's give them vaccines!). Its producer Shanta Biotechnics in India, is a subsidiary of Sanofi Pasteur (formerly Sanofi Aventis).
2) The MSF with UNICEF distributed the polio causing oral polio vaccine (OPV) that was developed by Sanofi Pasteur, which operates the world’s largest polio vaccine factory.

The American director of the genocidal UNICEF at the time was Anthony Lake, who previously was President Clinton's National Security Advisor responsible for US military interventions, including the war against Yugoslavia.
One of Lake’s closest allies during the war against Yugoslavia, was the French "hero" Bernard Kouchner, the co-founder of Medicins Sans Frontier. President Nicholas Sarkozy appointed that same Kouchner as French Foreign Minister: https://web.archive.org/web/2017030...ebola-breakout-coincided-un-vaccine-campaigns

 

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I’ve repeatedly posted about the Kazakh trio that is associated with Trump’s billionaire friend Tevfik Arif, and of course the Chabad-Lubavitch cult:

Among the other guests on board were Mashkevitch’s colleagues at ENRC, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov (together called the “Kazakh trio”, although they’re not Kazakhs).

https://ronpaulforums.com/threads/michael-flynn-inovo-and-erdogan.513623/post-6532237


Apparently there was a “Kazakhgate” scandal orchestrated in Belgium and France that involved the Kazakh trio and president Sarkozy.
The affair started in 1997, when the Belgian Tractebel made a deal in Kazakhstan that involved bribes for the Kazakh trio that in 2001 were formally indicted by the Belgian justice department. The trio’s Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov also have the Belgian nationality.

Then in October 2010, a 2 billion euros deal was announced by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and then president Sarkozy. This lucrative deal included the sale by France to Kazakhstan of 45 helicopters built by Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) and also 295 trains.
Quickly rumours were circulating on “bribery of foreign public officials” and “money laundering” related to the deal, with a formal “investigation” started in France in early 2012.

The Tractebel case against the Trio was settled in Belgium for 23 million euro based on a law that was quickly rushed through parliament.
It is alleged that the then vice-president of the Belgian senate, Armand De Decker, was bribed to help to reform Belgium’s criminal law, rushed through Belgian parliament and enacted in April 2011 so that the Kazakh trio could settle the case before it went to court: https://kiar.center/judicial-probe-widens-to-french-secret-services-role-in-kazakhgate-deal/
(https://web.archive.org/web/2025010...ench-secret-services-role-in-kazakhgate-deal/)


The story includes the theory that Sarkozy manipulated Belgian parliament for Chodiev (and his 2 trio partners in crime).
The accusation of bribery centres on a mysterious payment of 300,000 euros by Chodiev’s French attorney Catherine Degoul to a former advisor to Sarkozy, Jean-Francois Etienne des Rosaies. Des Rosaies was a childhood friend of the then grand chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Jean-Pierre Mazery!
Reportedly Armand De Decker received another 734,346 euro from Degoul.
Catherine Degoul also paid 25,000 euro to princess Léa (not of Star Wars, but the widow of prince Alexander of Belgium): (in Dutch) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazachgate


The main aspect of this media hysteria in Belgium doesn’t make sense, as the Kingdom of Belgium wouldn’t quickly approve some legislation to cover-up the corrupt deals of some Soviet-born oligarchs.
In reality it seems that “Kazakhgate” was pushed into the spotlight to cover-up that the French gigantic bank Société Générale (not to be confused with the Belgian bank with the same name) settled their criminal case, before the Kazakh trio, based on the same quickly rushed law…
Société Générale was investigated for fraud involving 20 Belgian companies in a money laundering and tax evasion scheme.

On 14 April 2011, the Belgian Parliament voted into law an amended Code of Criminal Procedure, to make it possible to settle a criminal procedure with the Public Prosecutor. Since the settlement payment is not a penalty, the transaction would not appear in the judicial register, which would completely clear the offender of the charges.

The first settlement based on this new law happened in Antwerp on 10 June 2011, between the Public Prosecutor and Société Générale.
The bank settled the fraud case for 40 million Euros.

This suggests that this law was amended to help Société Générale cover-up their crimes.
The CEO of Société Générale at the time was Frédéric Oudéa, a friend of French President Sarkozy. Didier Reynders, at the time Belgian Minister of Finance, was also a close friend of Sarkozy, and worked hard to solve the criminal investigation against Société Générale and get the new settlement legislation rushed through parliament: https://www.opensourceinvestigations.com/corruption/societe-generale-changed-criminal-law-belgium/
(https://archive.is/ArGeO)


Even though the crimes of Société Générale didn’t fit the criteria of the amended law it was settled anyway: (in Dutch) https://archive.is/12TRA