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1298Le Guardian triomphe. Le quotidien britannique poursuit depuis des années une campagne d’investigation et d’accusation contre le géant britannique de l’armement BAE, désormais officiellement classable comme le champion du monde toutes catégories pour fraudes et corruption en tous genres. Toute la presse britannique annonce ce soir que BAE a capitulé devant le département de la justice US (DoJ) et le Serious Fraud Office (SFO) britannique, a reconnu sa culpabilité dans toutes les charges relevées contre lui et accepté de payer $400 millions au DoJ, £30 millions au SFO plus diverses autres amendes.
Parmi d’autres, le Guardian détaille ce 5 février 2010 la décision de BAE. On renvoie également à l’énorme dossier du Guardian, qui archive tous les articles que ce quotidien a publiés dans sa très longue bataille contre BAE. Le Guardian a sans aucun doute joué un rôle essentiel dans cette affaire.
»The British arms firm BAE Systems has accepted guilt and agreed to pay penalties in the US and the UK totalling several hundred million dollars to settle all the long-running corruption allegations against it.
»Under the deal, announced simultaneously in London and Washington, BAE will pay $400m (£255m) in the US and £30m in the UK.
»In the US, the company will plead guilty to offences of false accounting to settle bribery allegations made over the enormous al-Yamamah arms deals with Saudi Arabia stretching back more than 20 years, as well as corruption allegations over arms deals in central Europe.
»The deal with the Serious Fraud Office in the UK covers one arms contract only, under which an overpriced military radar was sold to Tanzania. The SFO said some of the cash would become “an ex gratia payment for the benefit of the people of Tanzania”.
»The settlement vindicates a long campaign fought by the Guardian, which began a series of exposures of BAE's criminal conduct more than six years ago. BAE repeatedly denied all wrongdoing.
»“I am very pleased with the global outcome achieved collaboratively with the DoJ (US department of justice),” said the SFO director, Richard Alderman. “This is a first and it brings a pragmatic end to a long-running and wide-ranging investigation.”»
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