Thursday, June 21, 2007
Politicians - Jacques Chirac
Too many of them are cut from the same cloth...
Susan Bell reported at Scotsman.com News:
"Long-standing rumours that the former French president Jacques Chirac holds a secret multi-million-euro bank account in Japan appear to have been confirmed by files seized from the home of a senior spy.
Papers seized by two investigating magistrates from General Philippe Rondot, a former head of the DGSE, France's intelligence service, show Mr Chirac opened an account in the mid-1990s at Tokyo Sowa Bank, credited with the equivalent of �30 million. It is not known where the money came from, nor whether it is connected to various kick-back scandals to which Mr Chirac's name has been linked over the past decade.
Last year, Mr Chirac 'categorically denied' having a bank account in Japan.
The seized documents have been described by the magistrates as 'explosive' and are believed to contain copies of the former president's bank statements."
