a member is waiting for him. 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 coffeecup 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. 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 where the of a spy novel from prying eyes and public opinion in. the sale deals a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. 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 the region initially gold as a c.m. the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name in one nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas hoost and ever since then has played a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest and can. did france to spain by building

a train tunnel under the pyrenees then build the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world of germany but for the people of bell fort l. storm is so much more to deal a ticket bust you distance your mental us from the football football devolved usually to good preach see early. as this year in the key devote to this into the the tonight yet to be privy to universe we. will give you those who cross the deputy. to do that you know and it will do harm and. in about a little is this a pharmacist. in june one hundred forty four france had been freed but almost destroyed by four years of war contributes to the political project of rebuilding and modernizing the country to put it teach us explain me don't. mess with.

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led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three. for the. book evil. beach. and look who. does one say. to back spectacularly in two thousand and seven the group recorded the best figures in its history boosted by the t.g.v. historic 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 was selling its energy bridge which accounted for three quarters of the entire group to the american giant general electric and the economy minister at the time. is done. so.

thank you. to. my. year yes. now the floor do not use the four says. take the infamous you why don't get there leave it that way nationals i mean again . through all the understood for says our no more to brag hand however 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. care

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to food on them is why stop them eating the problem such as each suppose it should sit x e t in a she see to sure you know but i think he does she do it on i dont. got a call shows of course when i press you come among us and. we don't do this and you may not gain. this time instead of only you to put them on. the gift minor payment did you meet international well known bookie fight all she need professor to others ok i met. my half ago they tend to poke at it and as you know person from all. contempt is a pathetic when i see if i felt unable to sway public opinion trick 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 their i phone to do not post is that they did. that's done that because it was not demagogue along book six

being that at any of it the exception as wallaby vision the early plagues if they 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 what you're going to face your heart's forsaken jerusalem building or she is point but now it's like you seriously don't they come to love point to point to this and he. says when he said are you that still me get my place means that are you that stone in 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 on the program. now this unit has 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 on the. key.

no i said not a place probably as most petitions he has termed don't through could a city of it would let us to proceed you know the policy and they have no trust on cuz folks on do not really clichy did nationale if. this is all tal. old place only only could say we don't do that. says in a comp we don't want. them to numb the two as you've determined you to know it good person if you can are no one to book had achieved an incredible act of sheer force he had transformed the general electric alstom 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 than not disguise the music they put on a manual that. and you look at shows. on them oh

a clean way yonder a fail safe tell you all is where you and it hasn't been at all it's equal to the keys do you want to steal false he saw ruefully there exists a levee you don't you will know my roof a clean up not that i don't you care to conclusion do not diplomacy now only now if you'll move lobbies don't see 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. were. looked up to fourteen months fourteen months in a foreign prison fourteen months of never seen

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 ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight and. why is he. these men who question him so insistently. want confessions about his company do they want from him. the thing about saudi arabia is they is the oil as a weapon you know if they get too close to investigating what's going on over there they push the price of oil up now on last ten years because a fracking in america america position the south with energy independence and no longer. subject of the political pressures that could be borne upon them from opec

and the saudis so we're going to see a real test of this because. all of the litany of horrors coming out of saudi arabia is making people feel. run out of the flow the best out of the jaws of. the concepts of preparing to perform i actually prepare myself to. heed what. i'm sorry when i asked. you to snow in the home of. her. son to the. deity. so.

what. was it he could. not yes i did mission. up. in twenty two years to the u.s. department of justice launches an extensive investigation into no stone the suspects the french company of using corrupt practices for more than ten years to with drugs in many countries initial suspicions consume 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. yes 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. if it's not. been given then me it's not do not to answer it as soon as. that. is exactly more. accounting and difficult. to do now as you can i continue assume a new political and. then it's. already condemned abroad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the us prosecution of. corporate leaders are convinced that the us department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside the us territory and.

again. is. a cop dogs. even if it was it as you need to be able when you take the a pleasurable us 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 over. was it. after limo was it easy for example system to communicate door libya. was it easy. example or a sat phone. if you. get it

please keep. it is unique. with refusal to cooperate the d.o.j. is prosecution intensified in april twenty fifth and while traveling to the united states frederick a one time alstom executive was arrested. you won't believe. as you just evaded. security forgive i think. we. all need to. it's not just for the recruits he was under arrest three other former employees

some of whom have been retired for years before american courts they plead guilty to corruption judges and the case against becomes overwhelming. do i'm yeah i'm yeah. because you. don't. want to do. in paris on february the ninth twenty fourteen at the lug serious bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric see this is the first encounter the first face to face meeting between the two men chronos temps above all he wants to sell for the company he hopes to free. himself from the clutches of the american justice system therefore places a condition on the sale generally. adric will settle any fine for. the general

electric c.e.o. excepts and commits to the condition having killed two birds with one stone patrick . and its economic and legal difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer the payment of the five patrick crown this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america's. next. that's a giant a treat to be

a that. well so you could call it in deval elate people who get it and they don't think once it just given you a few heath ask you know you know mom didn't have boarded up these are doing to me if only to get off and see rules on today's date when as you said go up the army do not see the. indias i want more for before too general sickly delusional talk is already a problem another country under circuity oh it is you need to quit died to me and please always he who sees who by the way in question. were devoted to the christian . develops of these italy differences but google more. exceptional play need the absolute. 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 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 to nightly news is false and use a simple ordeal look 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. hall. yeah. because most fifty year. sure saturn on the earth just cements be.

a tank it surely sure sure sure sure like this joan sure. of it isn't like question i think it is a fact that two of the more they. do something more that a fic works as well as i can see bill. by no proof i'm going to buy a community imported you surely can ship. and on your own do do do but other commodity today patrick runs a vase of makes more sense to. you to them a letter is so that it on the over be accurate. enough you know money goes. place your safe and sour dish out of the economy social issues up by and at this hour doc will see postulate a total manali medicare be near merica. last many of them that if asked do.

you need to malice sit on the economy any day compliment of your commissions that our economy kick only monday call on it is that quick. it you know. or. was it as you need. just give us. just give you an. idea. 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 shit is a quite easily show me i can political discipline. because it is a multicultural emanuel mccrum the successor to our newmont to book in the role of minister of economy shares this opinion. on many occasion act. this group. can quota so you do good i post get if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fee as you say. except possibly one of you can a free os. and get up at mc we tried team knows what

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