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clearstream fallout goes galactic

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B oasting global links, Clearstream could spell disaster for galactic space hopes if us$1.5 trillion in assets are really in question NEWS In this age of million and billion dollar scandals it is difficult to absorb the size and scale of the us$1.5 trillion Clearstream affair. Seemingly random figures attached to shorthand words for long lines of zeros. Perhaps one way standing back and gauging Clearstream is from outer space. The Space Review warns international efforts to get rockets above the air will be badly affected. clearstream dwarfs enron tahiti link to trillion dollar fraud letter to justice minister grabs French media letter from jpk committee where it started 2001: clearstream executive spills 1.5 trillion beans

clearstream dwarfs enron

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NEWS How does the European Clearstream affair compare with the much better known Enron collapse in America? Like peanuts and elephants. A French justice is pursuing allegations against Clearstream including doubts that us$6.5 trillion in assets is being overstated by $1.5 trillion. By comparison, Enron involved just $16 billion in undeclared debts. Global trade is roughly $50 trillion annually.

tahiti link to trillion dollar fraud

NEWS Papers held by journalist Jean Pascal Couraud in his 1997 kidnapping and murder may be linked to an emerging scandal involving us$1.5 trillion in fraud. The Clearstream scandal is the world's biggest yet. Clearstream is the world's biggest clearing bank, verifying 70 per cent of foreign payments between banks. The same afternoon he disappeared, Couraud was seen holding a dossier seven centimetres thick. Just a few papers show former presidents Gaston Flosse and Jacques Chirac with US$70 billion in a Japan bank, now being linked to Clearstream fraud.

letter to justice minister grabs French media

NEWS French media are widely reporting a letter to the minister of Justice in France from the family of former Pape'ete editor Jean-Pascal Couraud. Sent in late June, the letter raises the JPK affair to a new level in French national affairs. No word yet on any response from the minister, but increasingly pointed commentary draws clear links between Couraud's allegations of suicide are being overtaken by detailed claims from all sorts of sources. What follows is one such story. Close relations of Jean-Pascal Couraud, an investigative journalist who “committed suicide” in mysterious circumstances in 1997, in Tahiti, claimed today that his death is “most probably” related to the “Chirac bank account in Japan .” They have written to Justice minister Rachida Dati. In this letter, they lay stress, on all syllables, on a possible link between the disappearance of the journalist and the investigations which he then carried out, concerning “financial transfers from French Polynesia to

letter from jpk committee

OPEN LETTER The following letter was sent from the JPK Support Committee at 17:29, dated 2nd July 2007, concerning an ongoing inquiry into the alleged assassination of former Pape'ete editor Jean Pascal Couraud. Original French has been translated, fairly roughly, into English by avaiki news agency. --------------------------------------------- June 26, 2007 For all our friends and sympathizers of the committee of support, a progress report on the case. Attached: Letter dated June 20, 2007 Minister of Justice Article Liberation of June 25, 2007 According to our sources, gendarmes have finished their investigations relating to the letter of inquiry with which they had been charged, and are about to pass the whole case to the examining magistrate. The lawyer which worked with Jean-Pascal Couraud at the time of his disappearance has just lodged our application. The examining magistrate could then propose instruction from any time now seeking quick closure, so the whole investigation