Monday, 12 September 2011 07:22
'Robert Bourgi, who served as an adviser to Chirac and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin before switching sides and joining the conservative camp of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, alleged on Sunday that several African governments had handed “briefcases” of cash to former officials of France, AFP reported.
However, the report does not at all mention what the despotic, Western-backed leaders of the poor African nations expected to get in return for pumping such large sums of money into election campaigns in France, one of Europe's richest countries. According to Bourgi, he "took part in handing over several briefcases to Jacques Chirac in person, at Paris city hall" in the 1980s and 1990s.
"There was never less than five million francs (more than 750,000 euros). It could go up to 15 million," he noted, adding "I remember the first handing over of funds in Villepin's presence. The money came from Marshal Mobutu (Sese Seko), president of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo)."'
Monday, 12 September 2011 07:16
'Revelations have been made about a British minister asking for £1 million in bribes from Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son in exchange for Lockerbie bomber's release.
In a letter found in an abandoned farmhouse in the outskirts of Tripoli, former British Premier Margaret Thatcher's Conservative minister, Lord Trefgarne, has demanded £1 million in “fees owed” for his efforts to advise Gaddafi regime's intelligent agents prior to the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's appeal case.'
Read more: UK Minister Wanted Bribe by Gaddafi
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