What is not well known to Malaysians is which an additional French association was declared alongside the now infamous Perimeker in the scorpene deal.
By Dr Kua Kia Soong Having had the payoff of seeking at some of the Paris Papers upon the Scorpene liaison recently, it behooves me to give anxious land-lubbers the "hitchhiker's guide" to this involved mesh of payments which have gone upon to douse this most costly (more than RM7 billion) arms purchase in Malaysia's history.
Since SUARAM lodged the complaint with the French courts for the judicial review of the Scorpene stipulate in Nov 2009, the French prosecutors have positively been busy with their investigations.
They have interviewed officials in the French state company, DCN as well as related companies such as Thales as well as officials in the French method of defence.
They have looked into bank vaults as well as scrutinized contracts, memoranda of bargain (MOU), memoranda of vigilant (MOI), invoices as well as bank accounts of various people together with Abdul Razak Baginda.
There have been additionally some rather telling internal trusted reports of DCN as well as the French method of defence.
What have Malaysians thus distant been told. So far, the Malaysian Ministry of Defence has told Parliament that:
1.The price of two Scorpene submarines together with logistic await as well as precision was close to 1 billion euros;
2.Payment to Perimekar Sdn Bhd for "coordination services" was 114 million euros.
Malaysian taxation payers will still nee! d to com pensate even some-more for maintenance services, await & test equipment, missiles as well as torpedoes, infrastructure for the submarine base, precision of crew, etc.
The total bill for these two submarines will be in additional of RM7 billion.
But have been these two the only exchange in the sordid affair which has claimed the life of the satisfactory Mongolian young woman declared Altantuya Shariibuu?
Perimekar merely "a transport agency"
Negotiations upon the submarine stipulate proposed in 1999. At the time, the French state association DCN had this perspective of Perimekar:
"The volume to be paid to Perimekar is over-evaluated. It is not worth itThey have been never some-more than the transport agencyThe price is arrogant as well as their await function is really vagueYes, which association combined ungrounded resources for the shareholders."
But this system was combined by the Malaysian government so DCN had no choice.
Before 2002, French bribes to unfamiliar officials were taxation deductible! Such is the inlet of arms deals all over the world.
Later when brand new laws in France as well as OECD Convention (Organisation for Economic Co-operation as well as Development) were introduced, bribing of unfamiliar officials became the crime.
Anyways, the former finance executive of DCN, Gerarde Philippe Maneyas had done the explain for 32 million euros (RM124 million) allegedly used to cheat Malaysian officials for purchase of the Scorpenes.
The French budget (Finance) apportion had questioned such the large cheat nonetheless he did in the future authorize the taxation break.
Bypassing French law
With the brand new French law as well as OECD Convention opposite crime was put in place after 2002, the French arms merchants had to find the approach to compensate commissions to th! eir unfa miliar clients.
The method used was to emanate "service providers" which could "increase invoices" in sequence to take the place of commissions.
Thus, when the French state association DCN terminated the contracts, Thales took over as the in isolation company, not involving the state.
Thales International was allocated to coordinate the domestic connections.
A blurb engineering stipulate was then signed in between DCNI as well as Thales, referred to as "C5".
The "C5 stipulate lonesome thirty million euros (RM119.4 million) in blurb costs abroad. The companies used in the Malaysian case were "Gifen in Malta, Eurolux in Luxemburg as well as Technomar in Belgium".
The transport expenses of Baginda as well as Altantuya were lonesome by these.
Another "consulting agreement" was signed in 2000 in between Thint Middle East as well as Terasasi for 2.5 million euros.
The commissions as well as dividends for the Scorpene understanding were funneled through two companies, Terasasi as well as Perimekar.
'Tell us about Terasasi'
Terasasi as well as Perimeker were both owned by Abdul Razak Baginda. His wife, Mazlinda is the executive in Perimekar while his father is additionally the executive in Terasasi.
Malaysians have heard about Perimekar as well as the "coordinating service" in the submarines deal.
But so distant there has been no mention of Terasasi.
Could the Minister of Defence tell the Malaysian open as well as Parliament the expect purpose of Terasasi in this Scorpene deal?
From the Paris Papers, you know which at least 32 million euros (RM144 million) were paid by Thales International (Thint) Middle East to Terasasi.
There is an check by Terasasi antiquated 1.10.2000 for 100,000 euros (RM397,880). There is additionally an check from Terasasi to Thint Asia, antiquated 28.8! .2004 fo r 359,450 euros (RM1.44 million) with the hand-written note observant "Razak wants it in the hurry."
This enlarge in invoices replaced the former dispensing of tall commissions.
A trusted report in the Paris Papers notes: "It appears which the government of Thint Middle East is aware which the volume paid to Terasasi ultimately benefited Najib or his adviser, Baginda."
Thus, as the French lawyer, Joseph Breham said: "Investigations so distant have supposing enough evidence to point the finger at Malaysian officials in this hearing."
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