Scorpene inquiry on-going, says French lawyer Bourdon

The counsel petitioning a justice in Paris to examine crime in a sale of dual Scorpene-class submarines to Malaysia has ticked off a French prosecutor for his remarks upon a box reported yesterday by national news agencyBernama.

Prominent tellurian rights counsel William Bourdon, who is formed in Paris, pronounced there was no subject of "an persisting trial" as a dual French judges appointed to a box were still carrying out their investigations in to a argumentative counterclaim understanding in in between France as well as Malaysia.

"The Tribunal deGrande Instance has convened a criminal exploration of which (Malaysian tellurian rights group) Suaram has been supposed as a polite celebration given Mar 2012," pronounced Bourdon.

He pronounced it was only upon a execution of a exploration which a investigating judge will have a preference of whether a box goes to full trial.

Bourdon (left) described French! supervision prosecutor Yves Charpenel's have a difference which there was "no trial" upon a box as "absolutely contradictory" because a judges, upon execution of their investigation, are a ones to decide whether to call for a trial, as well as not a prosecutor.

"To a knowledge, a prosecutors in charge of a box have not made any such have a difference as referred to by Charpenel," pronounced a prominent French lawyer.

"The dual judges, Roger Le Loire as well as Serge Tournaire, are stability their investigations upon a Scorpene inquiry."

BernamaquotedCharpenel, a former head of prosecution in France as well as who is now a state prosecutor, as observant which a media in Malaysia should be means to distinguish in in between rumours as well as facts, as well as in in between investigations as well as a trial.

"I am aware about all a bitch kicked up by sure media (organisations) in Malaysia over this have a difference but what we can contend is which this is zero more t! han a tri! al by a media," he is reported to have pronounced in Kuala Lumpur.

Charpenel is additionally an senior manager member of a International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, as well as was in Malaysia to attend a four-day discussion upon corruption.

Suaram: No need to turn a truth

Meanwhile, Suaram secretariat member Cynthia Gabriel pronounced her group had always maintained which a Scorpene box was a criminal review carried out by France, as well as which a box had nonetheless to go to trial.

Gabriel (right) pronounced Suaram was in Mar this year supposed as a celebration to a persisting inquiry.

"As such, manipulating as well as twisting a truth will bring no benefit to a poke for answers as well as truth in a matter," she toldMalaysiakini.

In 2009, Suaram filed a complaint opposite French counterclaim hulk DCNS for paying commissions t! o Malays ian officials in connection with a submarine deal. The remuneration of commissions is bootleg underneath French law.

Although a examine in underneath wraps, 139 prosecution papers have anonymously appeared online as well as a little of this information have been reported in a media.

Suaram recently revealed which asubpoena has been servedon a single of a witnesses it due as a chairman means to support in a French legal probe.

Last Saturday, PKR de facto personality Anwar Ibrahim confirmed which Bourdon as well as his law partner, Joseph Breham, had agreed to come to Malaysia to insist details of a exploration to members of a Dewan Rakyat.

However, because of fears which a lawyers maynot be permittedto enter Malaysia - Bourdon was deported final year for allegedly "abusing his social revisit pass" - a dual French lawyers are expected to brief MPs in neighbo! uring Sin! gapore.

Defence minister: Deal above board

At a press discussion final May in Bangkok, Thailand, Suaramrevealedthat a French association bidding for a submarine understanding paid 36 million euro (RM142 million) to Terasasi (Hong Kong) Ltd, evidently for "commercial engineering" works.

The RM7.3 billion understanding for a dual Scorpene submarines with DCNS was inked in 2002 when Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak (right) was counterclaim minister.

It has been alleged which millions of ! ringgit had been paid as commissions by private companies, including Terasasi, which belongs to Najib's confidant as well as former political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda.

Razak, who is currently formed in Br! itain, wa! s charged with abetting in a attempted murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu, who allegedly served as a translator in a deal.

However, he was expelled but being asked to have his defence.

Najib, who is additionally finance apportion as well as women, family as well as community growth minister, has denied any impasse in a Scorpene understanding or which he knew Altantuya.

Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi hasdismissed all allegationsof crime in a Scorpene deal, observant a auditor-general has declared which squeeze of a submarines had been carried out in accordance with legal procedures.

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