a senior executive said happily in his private jet after just pulling off quite a coup. he has secretly initiated the sale of one of france's biggest companies. even so before landing into the he becomes quite disillusioned the agreement has been leaked to the media taken by surprise he now has to justify his actions.

eva ticket knows that a government member is waiting for him. a minister of the economy is demanding an explanation how dare he sell without consulting the state the deal must be cancelled the c.e.o.'s refusal threatens a social tensions rise and it's pointed out that the minister has already broken other bosses and their dreams and he will be next this is the last time he will stand in his office or inside the ministry this is the coffee cup of a convicted man. two months later and after a fierce jewel the two men meet again same office different atmosphere. the ministers stand straight and tall but is stunned and defeated the last in the show of strength with the c.e.o. his defeat is also france's defeat. were

the c.e.o. is patrick cronin. the company sold to the u.s. without consulting the french data. in a deal that was sealed in circumstances worthy of a spy novel and from prying eyes and public opinion. the sale deals a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. alstom story begins in the city of bell fort this is where the company was blown in eighteen seventy two and since then it has literally shaped to the region initially gold as a c.m. the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name alstom in one nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas hoost and ever since then else dumb has played

a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest liner and connected france to spain by building a train tunnel under the pyrenees then built the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world. but for the people of belfort else dome is so much more to feel a ticket cost you distance your mental wonderful wolf will divorce if will he too would preach the early. jazz this year in the cd if you look two days into this will go to ny you have to be privy to the universe. we have well the police will do . it to you d.n. . bi do they you know and these are two hundred. in a bottle as well or is this a pharmacy that. in june one thousand and forty four france had been freed but almost destroyed by four years of war contributes political to the. project of

rebuilding and modernizing the country to critique of us explain me don't do. that because you see. your point and when you clear it's not any good enough look if you don't it will if you want. to. get anything out loud then you started in august when you. said either she omitted that he thought it would be no load of ideas begin a plan not outwardly. it pre-dawn to do men save time or. use for proof as to say that miletus genie. that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age from the one nine hundred sixty s. own words dog set on this from now on they live to toss off the oh yeah. it's. all in six words now.

but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins a series of strategic errors led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . of well she's a nice for the. book evolve well jake sharp's and i preach the. beauty of this show and look as to what we do is if who. did a little piece she'll do movie buzz one say else dumb bounced back spectacularly in two thousand and seven the group recorded the best figures in its history boosted by the t.g.v. as his start speed record worldwide by eight hundred million viewers why then in two thousand and fourteen did everything suddenly change on the morning of the twenty fourth of april bloomberg revealed that in a surprise move else dome was selling its energy brunch which accounted for three quarters of the group entire. to the american giant general electric and the

economy minister at the time. is done. so. so if you're. depressed you. think you. have to. year yes sequester voted. now the floor do not use the force as a stone put it to party. generally take the infamous you i don't get to leave it that way nationals i mean again it creaks up and they need to do it are so at that. through all the understood for says our no more to brag about how ever been questioning patrick grown over his intentions for months with his back to the wall

his reaction is a media and a particularly strong among who. in a quiver care but take orders from your home he eats internet to mean that you own the b.s. you have to sell. it to some to moan. and of unless you do it don't you know what a fifty years out they are but all crazy dog doo set out cookies good not all nationalities in most you buy t. call i don't really at all she do most certainly in ma i still use my my two d. do you have it all come out as good meanies kodaly can know me but only as dolly i did take the most old also be all crazy dog you got job you know policies really. geography i don't know war is declared between the two men and the first battle takes place in a public arena shows on the pleasure it new potential in the naked on june. fourth

don't succeed. as well as you look at local factors means a lot of the you mean all falls so low that i think google source on deservedly will buy do food on them is why stop them eating the problem such as each suppose it should set x e t in a she see to shirk you know but i think he does she do it on i don't. got it all shows of course when i press you come among us and. we don't do this and you may not gain. this time mrs investor vandeven we used to put them on. the gift minor payment didn't meet international well known bookie mfighter she need professor to others ok i met. him i have feel they tend to poke at it and as you know person from all. contempt is a pathetic when i see steve i felt unable to sway public opinion patrick crown receives heavy support from his american partner general electric together they

launch a media counter offensive what upon us what if we don't use that at all to do not obey is that it is. that's done badly call it cause no demagogue no long walk six they made it easy on the exception as wallaby vision the early they gave e-mailed good sources and also all of us all caught on to my scrooge just all along saying oh we're on the trolley out there on the yellow dog out say israel are always well where you're going to face your car so it's a building where she had gone but now it's like you seriously don't they come to love point to point to this and he. says what is that idea that stanley gettleman plays means allow you that stone he will meet you said and then you are no man to berg seems helpless against the general electric machine backed by major banks law firms and communications specialists the fight already seems to be lost it on the poker. have found a. now that is unique as a dentist as soon as tim but in

a dramatic twist the minister pulls a new weapon from his pocket and invites himself to the negotiating table you know now to take home one book. keep them in it then to india no i said not a place probably as most petitions he has termed don't who could do city of it would let us to proceed you know their policy on they have no trust on cuz folks on the not really clichy did nationality. this is all polish. old place only only could see we don't. send a cop we don't know when we will not rise to is too numb d. to as you've told you to know he good person if you can are no one to bug had achieved an incredible act of sheer force he had transformed the general electric else dumb pairing into a tripartite partnership with the french state in areas of renewable energy and nuclear power it appeared that french interest and sovereignty had been preserved

so it was it that going to play morning was that they often are not discuss them as if they have on a manual that. and you look at shows. on them oh a clean way yonder a fail safe that you know is where you go and it hasn't bought all its cookies give away still false he saw there exists levy you don't you will no more. not that i don't you care to conclusion do not have almost an hour early next you'll move lobbies don't see to not use their own families of people these any on june twenty first twenty fourteen the agreement is signed by general electric and the french state the sale has become an alliance at this moment the battle file storm appears to have been won however we have to go back a few years to understand the stakes. were. the fourteen months

fourteen months in a foreign prison fourteen months of never seeing a familiar face. bend and by all still management ignored by patrick crone and forgotten by his country. fourteen months of wondering when it will end. how did one hundred ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight. why is he. these men who question him so insistently. want confessions about his company do they want from him. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president. some want. to go right. to be for the survival of freedom or can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of my house. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution in haiti the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your style or here i mean your list put me in the neighborly is that i mean you pulling it out of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other. secure and prosperous and democratic.

in twenty years and us department of justice launches an extensive investigation and they suspect the french company of using corrupt practices for more than ten years to will contracts in many countries initial suspicions concern bribes allegedly made to members of the indonesian government in return for the contracts to build a power station refuses to cooperate with the us department of justice but the investigation continues regardless and extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas else dumb systematic and deliberately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe. fifty feet long. and then the long do not go into the to answer that as soon as you see fit.

to move don't you think. accounting and difficult. to do now as you can i can then assume an interview for that eclipse. and then. get hostess that you. already condemned abroad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the u.s. prosecution aside else dom's corporate leaders are convinced that the u.s. department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside the u.s. territory. as. a prop dogs. use it as you need to be able when you take the a pleasurable u.s. law is the foreign corrupt practices act home you have sepia this allows the d.o.j.

or department of justice to prosecute a foreign company for corrupt practices not on u.s. soil provided that the company has an identifiable connection to the united states after them overseas it. was it. lumo was it easy example system tickle me guess you don't mean there was. a battle did you move was it easy to pull into. the deep example i thought. these are going to be on more. exceptional play need the absolute. hundred that they. have it isn't only damon again. within days it is unique despite several alstom executives being arrested from

twenty fourteen on woods patrick cronin his team went to the united states several times never arrested nor concerned they could proceed with the sale to general electric and peace it's hard to imagine that at the same time for the recruits he has been imprisoned for a year from executives are detained by the f.b.i. the moment they set foot on american soil so much so that else dom's director of legal affairs urges company managers not to travel to the united states strangely patrick crone remains welcome tonight to news is false and uses shampoo of the week like tomorrow in france however patrick runs astonishing ability to enter and leave the united states on hindered is raising eyebrows he's questioned by m.p. jack ma at the french national assembly. on. don't. economists fifty years. that's a norm or just cements be. a tank it will surely short shorts

shorts sure like these joints. shoe nuts says. thank you the more they. just want you more they will fix what's. as well as i can see it. but no prove i'm going for it by committee. and on the other commodity today patrick runs a vase of answer makes more sense to. it it is so that it on the over be accurate. left you no money goes the place you're safe. this shot of the economy social issue up by at this hour doc will see postulate a total manali medicare be near merica. last many other led if i ask you do you

even get him alice sit on your car and it a compliment of your commissions that our economy only monday call on it is out quick. it you know. or. was it as you need. just give us. just give us. and this isn't general electric's first attempt over ten years the american company has bought five companies that were being prosecuted by the department of justice

for corruption the pattern is always the same an investigation is conducted and an acquisition unfolds under the threat of conviction and a severe fine which is avoided have been american british and french companies a twenty six million dollars fine was paid by the gray company in two thousand and seven after it was bought by general electric this was described as the biggest fine ever imposed under the foreign corrupt practices act eight years later that record is beaten by these lawsuits have systematically put pressure on the companies concerned facilitating the purchase by general electric for patrick cronin admitting a connection between any corruption prosecution against him and the acquisition of storm is out of the question according to the c.e.o. the reasons were purely financial some experts and journalists even said the same thing at the time of the sale. if you don't.

explain. don't. worry. this is a monkey just yet if you do it. if you don't he takes the top should fall to those on the bubble the i'm less sure looks like he does it all yet he does a major was elected sure wish sure not all places can lead to point b. short used to shoot you it is a quite a silly show me a gentle difficult discipline maybe because it is a multicultural emanuel mccrum successor to our newmont to book in the role of minister of economy shares this opinion is it a good act. mr quinn this crew. member to dig it it can pull over so you do cautious good i've been skate if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fi as you say. except possibly one of you can

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