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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...

. . . NEWS Thirteen of 26 new national security documents involving former French president Jacques Chirac are likely to stay top secret, despite links to an inquiry involving alleged assassination. Just 11 of the documents were recommended for full release on 4 December 2008, according to last Friday’s Official Journal, a state gazette. “Partial declassification” for two further documents were made by members of the CCSDN, la Commission consultative du secret de la défense nationale. A powerful advisory commission overseeing judicial inquiries and other requests for release of national defense secrets, CCSDN members recommended against the declassification of 13 documents. This compares with earlier recommendations releasing 16 of 17 documents from another dossier considered by CCSDN . All 132 recommendations from the national security commission have so far been accepted by ministers of the day. First story on the new documents appeared at a quarter to six last Friday evening, accord...

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 PARIS (Oceania Flash/Pacific Media Watch): Most of the files seized as part of recent investigations in French Polynesia could be made available to a judge based in Pape'ete who is currently investigating possible links between this French Pacific territory and former French President Jacques Chirac, as well as alleged bank accounts in Japan, French media reported at the weekend. The files, seized since June this year in the French Polynesian capital Pape'ete, belong to the French secret service, the DGSE. They have since remained inaccessible because they were classified as "secret defence" information. Pape'ete-based judge Jean-François Redonnet, who ordered the searches, had asked permission to use these files. Ruling on the issue, a consultative commission on national defence secret files, decided that of the 17 files, 16 should be declassified. The decision was published in the French Republic's official gazette last week. However, the final ...

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...

president gaston flosse in 2003, during a visit to french polynesia by jacques chirac NEWS Officials from a Japanese bank claim to have found "no evidence" of an account held for former French president Jacques Chirac. The claim is made in one of seventeen documents seized by an investigatory magistrate from Pape'ete, Jean-François Redonnet, according to French media reports. Redonnet astonished Paris circles when he arrived from Tahiti with search warrants for the offices of the DGSE, Directorate General of External Security, a French equivalent of America's Central Intelligence Agency. 'A LITTLE JUDGE' One site, Lalettrea, headlined its coverage - Le petit juge qui grandit subitement - "A little judge suddenly grows up." Reporting on the search, another site, Le Point, quotes sources as saying the "atmosphere was relaxed" as the judge settled in at a meeting room of the DGSE on Mortier boulevard. The next day, Redonnet also served a war...

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...

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...

COMMITTEE UPDATE Soutien JPK released the following update earlier today, carried below in French. Papeete, le 19 octobre 2007 A tous les amis, membres et sympathisants du Comité de soutien, Les éléments déjà recueillis montrent que l’enquête doit être poursuivie Comme indiqué dans notre dernier communiqué du mois de septembre 2007, nous avons pris connaissance ces dernières semaines du dossier d’enquête que le juge d’instruction Philippe Stelmach se propose de clore en l’état. Comme nous nous y attendions, la lecture du dossier d’instruction montre bien au contraire la réelle nécessité de poursuivre l’enquête. Les principaux éléments sur lesquels se fonde un tel constat sont les suivants : 1- Les nombreuses contradictions et mensonges avérés de certains proches de Jean-Pascal Couraud sur le déroulement précis de la dernière soirée passée à son domicile : leur mise en évidence lors des gardes à vue réalisées en début d’année 2007 nécessite de nouvelles invest...

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

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.