number. in issue in wave. a senior executive says happily in his private jet just pulling off quite a coup. he has secretly initiated the sale of one of france's biggest companies. even so before landing he becomes quite disillusioned the agreement has been leaked

to the media taken by surprise he now has to justify his actions. knows that a government member is waiting for him. minister of the economy is demanding an explanation 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 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 minister 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 ford this is where the company was blown 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 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 that a ticket cost. as wonderful wolf will divulge if 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. d.n. . bi do they you know and who hunt. 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. contributes to the political project of rebuilding

and modernizing the country to critique us explain me don't do. that because you see. your point and 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 immediately knew. that the thought out there be no no no just begin the plan not outwardly. it pretty don't do men save high more. to uproot as a set of milage. genie. that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age from the nine hundred sixty s. own words dog set on this from now on they live to toss off elders yeah.

i may not be still in the sixth what is now yet. but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins a series of strategic errors led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . which is a nice for the the book evolve well jack shops and i preach in. this show and look as to what he does if who. did 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 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 else dome was selling its energy brunch which. counted for three

quarters of the inter-group to the american giant general electric and the economy minister at the time. is done. so. you. think you. have to. year yes sequester voted. now the floor do not use the force as i stone put it to patty. generally take the infamous you i don't get to leave it badly nationals i mean again in the creeks and they need to do it are still at the clock here 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. in the cover care but take on those for whom he eats internet media joined a b s yep is that above 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 going to me. as dolly i did take the most old also be all crazy dog you got caught you know policies really mouth do you know who they are no war is declared between the two men and the first battle takes place in a public arena shows on the pleasure it new potential new naked on june. fourth

don't succeed to conciseness bustin except i also think if you look at local factors means a lot of the you middle falls so on you i did a google search on desert are doing well by do food on them is why stop them he called them such as each suppose it should say taxi to initiate c. to shirk you know but i think he does he do it on i don't. got the call shows of course when i press you come among us and. we don't do this and you may. just as you this time. of only you to put them on. the gift minor payment did meet international well known book the fight on sinead professor to others ok i met . him i have feel they tend to poke at it and as you know percent the market. cap is so pathetic when i see if 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 upon us what if we don't use their i phone to do not post is that they did. that's done badly call it in a demagogue no longer book six they made it easy on the exception as wallaby vision the early plague chief 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 on the yellow dog out say israel are always where you're going to face your car so it's a building or she had been i was like you seriously don't they come to love point to point to this and he. says what 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 known 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 poker have found a pair of shorts 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 on the. key. then to india no i said not a place probably as most petitions he has termed don't think you could use it because of it let us suppose he did you know the policy on the have no trust on cars force on do not tell it to he denies your knowledge. this is all tal. old place only only could say we don't. send him a comp we don't know when we will not it. is too numb ditches you've determined you to know it 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 the 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 discuss the music they play out on a manual that. and you look at shows. on them oh a clean way younger of said tell us where you go and it hasn't bought cookies give away still false just saw proof we don't exist levy you don't you will no more difficult not is 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. looked up to 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 grown and forgotten by his country. fourteen months of wondering when it will end. how did one 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. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have crazy confront a shooting let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only

way i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful betty. this is how the.

department of justice launches an extensive investigation into. many countries initial suspicions bribes allegedly made to members of. contracts to build a power station. but the investigation continues regardless extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt has systematic.

corrupt practices revealed across the globe. i'm fed. up until. the victim or do you think. accounting and political issue. to do next you can i can then yes them a new view but if you couldn't sit with. them then it would. have you. already condemned abroad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the u.s. prosecution of storms corporate leaders are convinced that the u.s. department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside u.s. territory to take this to be ecstatic to really to do i mean again. and again course in their capital you know more not of these. pop dogs. that if you

use it as you need to be able when you take the a pleasurable u.s. law or 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 to them overseas it. was it. it was a welcome dr lemole was it easy for example a system to communicate. that america after all did you know was it easy people in. this. example a sat phone. do i sat in on what they modeled america if you. take it if you cannot will please keep boss. as it is unique.

but on this one can do i mean again is likes was a can do with else dumbs refusal to cooperate. the d.o.j. is prosecution intensified in april twenty fifth traveling to the united states frederick a one time alstom executive was arrested. evaded . security. we. just for the routine who is 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.

if you do i mean yeah i mean. 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 tense above all he wants to sell the company he hopes to free. himself from the clutches of the american justice system therefore places a condition on the sale 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

pop the champagne. has been sold and its economic and legal difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even do. payment of the five patrick crown this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america. now. i get put in the. course and it's. in the next. devolve. that's what he did genetically it be a that he. said. so yeah. deval in the late people forget it it's and they just don't think once it

just given you a few heath ask you know you know mom didn't have floated about these are doing to me in a way to get f. and c. rules on today's date when as you said go up the army do not see the book is already doing these i want it more for peaceful to general sickly delusional not to appease already a problem another country under circuity zero it is you need to quit died to me and please always he who sees her by the way in question. devoted to the place you. develop some of these are truly differences but google more. exceptional play need the absolutely most. people on hundred day look at all the folks that they have it is a delete them again party. 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 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 cronin remains welcome tonight to news is false. forty a week 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. because fifty year. sure saturn on earth just cements be. a tank it surely sure sure sure sure like his junk sure.

sure yes says. question thank you to the model. who sent you know that a fake works as well as a transceiver. spec but no prove i'm going for it by committee or said you surely can 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. enough you know money goes. a place you're safe as a dish out of the economy social issue up by at this hour the call city postulate a total manali medicare being there merica. last many of them that if asked do you see even unity malisse city or county and it's a component of your commissions that our economy only monday called on it is that.

the commission is that i can to meet all of your the loss of innocent internet. or develop paucity of. ms not less is it as you need intellect just couldn't feel it of course a case could be until about among us at a fair listening regional problem of western media loves that we are numb for 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 eighty 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 else 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. so it. does explain more. don't.

worry. if you. should fall to. your wish sure don't. disappoint me. emanuel mccrum. successor to our newmont to book in the role of minister of economy shares this opinion. page acts. this group. says it can pull over so you do good i've been skate if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fee as you say could end up alcoholic suppose you'll have you can a freelance. second look which went to my sugars and get up at mc we tried team knows what level to start and that was until this woman never again we had let there be

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