jpk update

. . . HOME JPK Update takes today's headlines from leading news sites, most in French, just a few in English, about a Tahiti scandal that started out as an allegation of assassination and continues, to this day, to ensnare a widening ring of global figures. Most significant, former French president Jacques Chirac, alleged to have held roughly US$70 million inside a Tokyo bank set up by the family of a protege, former president of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse. Disgraced United States investor Bernard Madoff - accused of spiriting away US$50 billion, the biggest fraud in court history - is another well known name emerging in links with Clearstream, a clearing bank. A kind of bank-for-banks, Clearstream officially acts exclusively as an independent check on transactions between banks. Allegations emerging in 2001 saw Clearstream accused of opening secret accounts for some of the world's biggest banks, as well as for private individuals and other "non-banks." Jean-Pasc...

. . . ABOUT JPK Update was set up by ANA, avaiki nius agency in November 2005, following a trip to French Polynesia to cover February by-elections. Then, as now, the site serves as an attempt to cross the language barrier between French and English media coverage of the alleged assassination of former Pape'ete editor, Jean-Pascal Couraud, an investigative journalist. Known as JPK, the Couraud case is regionally significant in being the first journalist to have dissapeared while on active duty, the first allegedly assassinated. More about avaiki nius agency .

. . . CONTACT Bloggers, media colleagues and members of the public are welcome to use information and pictures from these pages. Linking to pictures and pages is welcomed, as is attribution to Avaiki Nius Agency. For more information, see contacts below. jason brown editor project jpk tagata pasifika TVNZ po box 3819 100 victoria street west auckland aotearoa new zealand email avaiki.nius@gmail.com mobile +642102484560 phone +6499167058 fax +6499167552 . . .