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. . . BEHIND THE HEADLINES Bailiffs have appeared on his doorstep at home some 200 times , claims the support committee behind France’s leading investigative journalist. There are some 30 court cases lodged in progress against Denis Robert in what may prove to be one of the biggest banking scandals yet – even after the global economic crisis. So far, a total of six million euros are being claimed against Robert and various French media who have reported his claims of vast networks of corruption, much of it allegedly linking to the global economic crisis. Robert has been forced to start selling paintings, tshirts, and to step away from exposes and pen a novel to try and match steadily climbing legal bills. Most of the claims come from Clearstream, a clearing bank so secretive French judges have publicly denounced it as the “black box of offshore banking.” Some 500 journalists have scanned in their press cards and sent them into one of a handful of blogs set up to support Robert. Another...

Clearstream Wins Defamation Award Appeal Over French Journalist By Heather Smith Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Clearstream International SA, the financial-settlement company owned by Deutsche Boerse AG , won 1,500 euros ($2,000) in damages from a French journalist in its appeal of an earlier 1-euro defamation award. The Paris court of appeals ruled that reporter Denis Robert and his publisher Les Arenes , or Canal Plus, the pay-TV unit of Vivendi SA that ran a documentary in 2001 featuring Robert's reports, erred when they claimed that Clearstream's numbered accounts facilitated illegal activities, according to a statement from Clearstream. Clearstream's goal ``has been to establish the truth about its activities and to defend its honesty,'' said Clearstream Chairman Andre Roelants in the statement. The appeals court's decision to increase the damages ``accomplishes that.'' An appeals court in Brussels last month fined Canal Plus Belgique 1 euro in a libel ca...

NEWS RELEASE Two French media giants are marking the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of former Pape'ete editor, Jean-Pascal Couraud, with independent investigations. Second most popular in French radio, France Inter and leading daily newspaper Le Monde are both set to release indepth reports into allegations of assassination. Reportage seems sure to increase pressure on authorities previously foot dragging their way through official inquiries, now in their third year. Couraud disappeared nearly one decade ago, on Monday night of 15th December 1997. MAFIA Initial findings of suicide remained unchallenged until October 2004. Vetea Guilloux, a presidential security agent, told the administration of Oscar Temaru, then new, about widespread espionage activities in his surveillance section. Including, allegedly, overhearing colleagues boast about the mafia-style drowning of the investigative journalist - known by his byline "JPK". Like Watergate, L'Affair JPK is beco...

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

. . . 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...

a photocopy sign for a meeting of the support committee for missing journalist, jean-pascal couraud. NEWS Police in French Polynesia have seized documents from the offices and home of the former lawyer for long missing journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud. The search was ordered by prosecutor Jean Bianconi after Jean-Dominique Des Arcis was questioned by investigating magistrate Jean-François Redonnet. Radio New Zealand International reports Des Arcis was questioned two days after the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Couraud for making conflicting statements. RADIO EXPOSE The search was the first fallout from a controversial expose carried by France Inter, the second most popular radio station in France, according to a report from Rue 89, a French language news website. Among others, France Inter interviewed Des Arcis who, for the first time, declared that he did not think the disappeareance of "JPK" was suicide - contradicting earlier statements. The family had previous...

. . . Reasons to keep Maohi media > an open letter to President of French Polynesia, Oscar Manutahi Temaru, 15th December 2011  Kia orana Mr. President, Fourteen years ago today, a journalist named JPK disappeared from the island of Tahiti. To this day, top secret documents remain on file, linked with this journalist, but denied to investigatory judges by a national security commission.  Similar documents also link JPK with a separate investigation into Clearstream, the world's largest bank, a bank for banks. At no time since the era of nuclear testing have people French Polynesia come closer to the raw power of the French state, a savage mafia "melieu" involving intelligence services, judiciary and diplomacy.  Disappearance of Jean-Pascal Couraud on 15th December 1997 saw the loss of an opportunity to expose hidden back-channels of global finance.  A "secret, and secondary, banking system" as it was descri...

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 ...

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.

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.

The JPK affair involves a lone journalist in French Polynesia, and his family, fighting against the full power of the republic. ... Who killed JPK? a 30 year overview of the JPK affair, from 1967, when Jean-Pascal was a boy by avaiki nius agency editor jason brown 15th December 1997 Surveillance agents, trained by French spies, lash nylon rope through concrete blocks, four of them, to the body of Jean-Pascal Couraud, investigative journalist. His blood ebbs onto the afterdeck of the motorboat, rocking languidly in open ocean swells. Full moon night, open ocean between two islands. Mo'orea and Tahiti. Shark night. 1967 Jean-Pascal, six, holds up a small fish, orange. Francette kneels, raises the family camera from it's neck strap, captures the boy, the fish, a first, a lagoon vista sweeping behind him. There are no mushroom clouds near Mo'orea. In time, the blond French boy eyes a looming reef curl, board underarm. Local Maohi nearby p...

FOLLOW UP Who killed JPK? Rue89 reports links between Couraud's disappearance and bank accounts held in Japan by the same politicians he was exposing. Judicial efforts in Tahiti towards investigating allegations of assassination of a former Pape'ete editor continue to stagger on. Latest news out of the French territory indicates that an investigating magistrate has declared there are no more witnesses to be heard regarding the disappearance of Jean-Pascal Couraud, on 15th December 1997. Meantime, a French language news site gives the connections between Couraud and documents he was carrying at the time of his alleged kidnapping by French-trained security agents. A Tahiti, le "compte japonais" invoqué dans une sombre histoire | Rue89 Translation to come shortly : other links clearstream dwarfs enron tahiti link to trillion dollar fraud letter to justice minister grabs French media letter from jpk committee clearstream fallout goes galactic

PRESS RELEASE > reporters sans frontieres 15 December 2007 The tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Jean-Pascal Couraud: Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities not to betray the hopes of his family A few days before the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of the former editor of the Les Nouvelles in Tahiti, Jean-Pascal Couraud ( "JPK"), on December 15, 2007, Reporters Without Borders calls on the French authorities including the Justice minister, known as the the Keeper of Judicial Seals, Rachida Dati, to renew their commitment to establishing the truth about the exact circumstances of the death of the journalist. "Recent events allow us to believe that the investigation into the death of Jean-Pascal Couraud could move forward on a sound basis. Ten years after the fact, it is urgent, both from a moral and legal viewpoint, that the ins and outs of this case be brought out into the open. We call on French justice not to provide arguments to those who...

. . . France's judicial system Clear as mud The Clearstream case raises anew questions of judicial independence Feb 4th 2010 | PARIS | From  The Economist  print edition AFP De Villepin hits back HOW independent is the French judicial system? That question has been thrown into sharp relief by the public prosecutor’s decision to appeal against the acquittal on January 28th of Dominique de Villepin, a former prime minister, in the “Clearstream” smear-campaign trial. One of the civil plaintiffs in the case was Nicolas Sarkozy, who has long claimed that Mr de Villepin was out to thwart his political career. Mr de Villepin evidently failed. Mr Sarkozy claimed soon after the acquittal that he accepted the verdict—and yet the public prosecutor promptly decided to appeal. Ever since, rumours have swirled of plots and counter-plots. Mr de Villepin was quick to cry foul. The decision to appeal, he claimed, had been taken “during a meeting at the Elysée”, Mr Sarkozy’s off...

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 ...

. . . Communique from  Soutien JPK  “Committee supporting the search for truth about the disappearance of Jean-Pascal Couraud” Points on the investigation following a complaint submitted in December 2004 Numerous investigations, hearings and confrontations were made and still need to be pursued in order to specify and verify the evidence and statements collected on testimony by former GIP agents and their relatives recounting his abduction and murder by  employees of the territorial fleet; About Vetea Guilloux, the origin of our filing a complaint and as reported by several independent sources, including the police. > Several dossiers of the scandal are on file that have expanded the scope of the investigation since 2008, that identify a possible motive: > Tahara'a affair: Jean-Pascal Couraud is among the co-plaintiffs on the basis of a claim made to this effect by Mr Desarcis, implemented three months after his death in March 1998 - Flosse c...