ShakirQureshi
MPA (400+ posts)
Dear Fellow Pakistanis, i ve received the following information & sharing it with you, no meter you already know about it BUT
Let's Bow ours Heads in SHAME for such Scandals our leaders are involved.
THESE POLITICIANS MUST BE STOPPED telling them that "WE DON'T NEED THEM ANY MORE !!"
ShakirQureshi,
Chairman,
Karwan e Fikar - UK.
Pakistan Painda Abad.
INFORMATION PRESS - News Views Media - www.InformPress.com - USA
PPP President Asif Ali Zardari Received Bribes in French Submarines
Sale to Pakistan Navy:
Report: Pakistani President Suspected of Graft in Submarine Sale
PARIS, France, 10 November 2009 (DPA) - Pakistani [PPP] president Asif
Ali Zardari is suspected of having received millions of dollars in
kickbacks from the 1994 sale of three French submarines to the
Pakistan Navy, the daily Liberation [newspaper based in Paris, France]
reported Tuesday.
In addition, investigators believe that the non-payment of the full
amount of the agreed kickbacks may have led to the deaths of 11 French
nationals in a 2002 terror attack in the city of Karachi [Pakistan].
In the report, Liberation says it acquired documents that allegedly
show that [Asif Ali] Zardari received 4.3 million dollars in kickbacks
from the sale of three Agosta 90 submarines for 825 million euros
(currently 1.237 billion dollars).
The documents were sent to the Pakistani National Accountability
Bureau (NAB) by British authorities in April 2001 and indicate that
[Asif Ali] Zardari received several large payments into his Swiss bank
accounts from a Lebanese businessman, Abdulrahman el-Assir, in 1994
and 1995.
According to a former executive of the French naval defence company
DCN, French authorities chose el-Assir to act as intermediary in the
deal.
He allegedly deposited a total of 1.3 million dollars in [Asif Ali]
Zardari's bank accounts between August 15 and 30, 1994, one month
before the submarines contract was signed, and then 1.2 million
dollars and 1.8 million dollars one year later.
According to DCN employees, who testified in the terror attack
investigation, the kickbacks to Pakistan in the deal totalled 10
percent of the purchase amount, with 6 percent, or 49.5 million
dollars, going to the military and 4 percent, or 33 million euros,
being funneled to political circles.
In 2001, former Pakistan Navy Chief of Staff [Admiral] Mansur ul Haq
was arrested for his part in the deal and forced to repay 7 million
dollars, the daily [Liberation] says.
- http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsMay2001/newsbeat2.htm
- http://www.pmln.org.pk/mansoor.php
Legal proceedings against [Asif Ali] Zardari were [illegally] dropped
in April 2008, several months before he was [unlawfully] elected
president. However, the husband of the assassinated former Pakistani
prime minister Benazir Bhutto was imprisoned from 1997 to 2004 on
corruption charges unrelated to this affair.
The Pakistani [PPP] president is one of his country's richest men,
with a net worth estimated at 1.8 billion dollars.
The ongoing investigation in Paris into the May 8, 2002, terrorist
attack that killed 11 DCN employees in Karachi may shed new light on
the submarines purchase and his part in it.
The victims were in Karachi to complete work on the three submarines.
According to French media, the magistrate looking into the bombing has
rejected the theory that it was the work of 'al-CIA-da'.
He is now considering the possibility that it was carried out by
Pakistanis, either because only 85 percent of the agreed kickbacks to
politicians had been paid or because of negotiations carried out by
French authorities to sell submarines to India, Pakistan's enemy.
In any case, some French parliamentarians are now demanding to be
allowed to look into how the submarines contract with Pakistan was
negotiated and executed.
Let's Bow ours Heads in SHAME for such Scandals our leaders are involved.
THESE POLITICIANS MUST BE STOPPED telling them that "WE DON'T NEED THEM ANY MORE !!"
ShakirQureshi,
Chairman,
Karwan e Fikar - UK.
Pakistan Painda Abad.
INFORMATION PRESS - News Views Media - www.InformPress.com - USA
PPP President Asif Ali Zardari Received Bribes in French Submarines
Sale to Pakistan Navy:
Report: Pakistani President Suspected of Graft in Submarine Sale
PARIS, France, 10 November 2009 (DPA) - Pakistani [PPP] president Asif
Ali Zardari is suspected of having received millions of dollars in
kickbacks from the 1994 sale of three French submarines to the
Pakistan Navy, the daily Liberation [newspaper based in Paris, France]
reported Tuesday.
In addition, investigators believe that the non-payment of the full
amount of the agreed kickbacks may have led to the deaths of 11 French
nationals in a 2002 terror attack in the city of Karachi [Pakistan].
In the report, Liberation says it acquired documents that allegedly
show that [Asif Ali] Zardari received 4.3 million dollars in kickbacks
from the sale of three Agosta 90 submarines for 825 million euros
(currently 1.237 billion dollars).
The documents were sent to the Pakistani National Accountability
Bureau (NAB) by British authorities in April 2001 and indicate that
[Asif Ali] Zardari received several large payments into his Swiss bank
accounts from a Lebanese businessman, Abdulrahman el-Assir, in 1994
and 1995.
According to a former executive of the French naval defence company
DCN, French authorities chose el-Assir to act as intermediary in the
deal.
He allegedly deposited a total of 1.3 million dollars in [Asif Ali]
Zardari's bank accounts between August 15 and 30, 1994, one month
before the submarines contract was signed, and then 1.2 million
dollars and 1.8 million dollars one year later.
According to DCN employees, who testified in the terror attack
investigation, the kickbacks to Pakistan in the deal totalled 10
percent of the purchase amount, with 6 percent, or 49.5 million
dollars, going to the military and 4 percent, or 33 million euros,
being funneled to political circles.
In 2001, former Pakistan Navy Chief of Staff [Admiral] Mansur ul Haq
was arrested for his part in the deal and forced to repay 7 million
dollars, the daily [Liberation] says.
- http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsMay2001/newsbeat2.htm
- http://www.pmln.org.pk/mansoor.php
Legal proceedings against [Asif Ali] Zardari were [illegally] dropped
in April 2008, several months before he was [unlawfully] elected
president. However, the husband of the assassinated former Pakistani
prime minister Benazir Bhutto was imprisoned from 1997 to 2004 on
corruption charges unrelated to this affair.
The Pakistani [PPP] president is one of his country's richest men,
with a net worth estimated at 1.8 billion dollars.
The ongoing investigation in Paris into the May 8, 2002, terrorist
attack that killed 11 DCN employees in Karachi may shed new light on
the submarines purchase and his part in it.
The victims were in Karachi to complete work on the three submarines.
According to French media, the magistrate looking into the bombing has
rejected the theory that it was the work of 'al-CIA-da'.
He is now considering the possibility that it was carried out by
Pakistanis, either because only 85 percent of the agreed kickbacks to
politicians had been paid or because of negotiations carried out by
French authorities to sell submarines to India, Pakistan's enemy.
In any case, some French parliamentarians are now demanding to be
allowed to look into how the submarines contract with Pakistan was
negotiated and executed.
