when the merry go round. middle of the room. a senior executive says 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 bush he becomes quite disillusioned the agreement has been leaked to the media taken by surprise he now has to justify his actions.

even take it or he knows that a government member is waiting for him. to bow 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 plan 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 this 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 far from prying eyes in public opinion and 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 belfort this is where the company was born in eight hundred 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 bell ford else dome is so much more to feel that eighty could cost. as wonderful wolf will the vault usually two would preach the early. this year in the seed if you look two days into this one will nationals and the tonight have to be privy to the universe we have well the police will do he. bank do they you know and he's a two hundred million in about it as well or is this a pharmacy that. in june one thousand forty four france had been freed but almost destroyed by four years of war else don contributes to the political project of rebuilding and modernizing the country. to critique us explain me don't do.

that when she see. you point and when you care 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 a lot of ideas begin a plan not outwardly. it pre-dawn to do men save him more. this would prove as was a lot of military genie. that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age from the one nine hundred sixty s. on words. on this from now on they live off. it's. still 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 which is a nice for this north book evolve well jack shops and i preach in. this show and look as to what he does if who doesn't promote. me a. little piece should do move about as one saved l. stone 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 branch which accounted for three quarters of the entire group to the american giant general electric. the economy

minister at the time. is done. so. just. depends on you. taking. on one book you see as if to. my just was a. year much as sequester voted. now the floor do not use the force as i stone put it to patti. generally take the infamous you i don't get to leave it is also i mean again in the creeks and they need to do it are still at the clock in 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 support. care to take on those from. the internet to me that's from joan the best yep is that it says that about it to something called the motto on divine su it don't you know whether fifty years out the r.'s zero crazy dog who said all cookies did not suffer alone i should add it most here by teco i don't really out there always do most so in the name i still use mo. do you have it or should i don't mean he's totally going to me it's like telling us that they think don't do most old also do all crazy don't. you know policy vs valium out there that there. won't be to not use their own tam's 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. 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 all end. how did one ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight. why is he. these men who question him so insistently. what confessions about his company do they want from him.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development the only posts really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. ministries police forces and city administrations of many countries depend on one corporation in the us but mike was hoping when the board doesn't implement the presence of god i'm just going to go through the. woods as the good you got into the sea at the must also bribe them proprietary software you don't know the source code isn't that such a security risk when you have a black box operating the public eye to microsoft dependency puts governments under

a cyber threat and not only that she thinks office can put more on that song because so often simply assumes there is a stalemate in the stalls the only one of them will still be true almost all the people in this you all do this. with you know things and this is the i still. don't miss the old vision stopping there was listing all the as a front is up and describes on the front. two thirds of american host schools do not have five hundred dollars emergency care. test crispe go by your population doesn't have money and you burning money maintaining thirteen aircraft carriers around the room why why did you change your policies and do something that is good for the way can do and good

for america in the long run. in twenty years and u.s. department of justice launches an extensive investigation into they suspected 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 u.s. department of justice but the investigation continues regardless and extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas systematic and elaborately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe. even then they. do not point out. that. the victim or the only thing.

to do now is you can then the. political. systems that you already condemned abroad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the u.s. prosecution of corporate leaders are convinced that the u.s. department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside the u.s. territory. even if it was it as you need to be able when you take the a pleasurable u.s. law is the foreign corrupt practices act. 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 . back to the movies it. was it. it was a walk up the limo was it easy example system to communicate. with america after you did you move was it easy. example. do i step in with a muscle america if you will wish you could take it if you cannot will please keep boss. as it is unique. but on this one can do i mean again it's links was. with tom's refusal to cooperate with the d.o.j. as prosecution intensified in april twenty fifth team while traveling to the united states frederick a one time alstom executive was arrested. you won't believe the minute phone calls

you more can expect just don't evade. the increase on do it security do you want to give i think did. the navy the young twenty. we. all need to become almost. designed to take over you question it's not just for the record ruchi who is under arrest three other form a storm employees some of whom have been retired for years before american courts they plead guilty to corruption judges and the case against al stone becomes overwhelming. solves a song. by the dam on perceived do i mean yeah i mean i mean. sixty two i. tell you. you don't know this from all our fill out on this today do long division ip. in

paris on february the ninth twenty fourteen. bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric's. this is the first encounter the first face to face meeting between the two men. tends. to sell for a company he hopes to free both. from the clutches of the american justice system. places a condition on the general a big trick will settle any fine for. the general electric c.e.o. accept and commits to the condition having killed two birds with one stone patrick . day. and its economic difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer payment of the five patrick this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america.

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always see who sees who by the way and question because they were devoted to the place you. develop some of these are truly differences but google more. exceptional play need the absolutely most. people who own hundred they look at all the folks that they have it is a daily daemon again. within days it is unique despite several alstom executives being arrested from twenty fourteen onward 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 very true she has been imprisoned for a year from executives or 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 cronin remains welcome tonight to news is false and use

a simple ordeal look like too long 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. hall. yeah don't shout. because most fifty year. sure sutton on the cement be. a tank it surely sure sure sure sure like his junk sure. sure yes says. question thank you there's a full picture of the model. who sent you know that a fake works as well as a transceiver. spec but no proof i'm going for it by committee. surely can't ship. and on the other

commodity today patrick runs a vase of makes more sense to. it it is so that it on the over be accurate. he left you no money goes the place you're safe as a dish out of the economy social issue up there and at this hour of the coral sea postulate a total man only meant he could be near merica. last many allege if i ask you do you see even unit m.l. is sitting there going at it a compliment of your commissions that our economy only monday called on it is out. that commission is that i can to meet all of the less obvious and an internet but up or develop possibly. middle class was it as you need intellect just couldn't feel it of course i just give you a feel about among us that

a fair listening regional problem of western media loves that we are numb some peers e.g. a p.c. . thank you. 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 dollar 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 a purchase by general electric for patrick cron admitting a connection between any corruption prosecution against him and the acquisition of als dom 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 get. it does she explain more. don't please. hurry. if you. wish should all don't.

disappoint me. emanuel mccrone the. successor to on a month to bargain the role of minister of economy shares this opinion. page acts. this. city will conclude our journey to push was good i've been skate if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fee as you say. x. suppose you don't have you can a freelance. second look which went to my shoes and you know but nick we tried team knows what level to start and it was until this woman never again we had let there be no is a demo. tapes be explicit so look at all the lesson yet you only need one he said he can do but on the night he clicked on designer knew that one day he did a cynical point all sale sounding to the austrian posh danced on a screws that hold the pin existed then they. really should hold on to it is it

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