Beginning of The Affair
A list of accounts supposedly held by French individuals at Clearstream was sent anonymously to investigating magistrate Renaud van Ruymbeke on four occasions between May and October 2004. At that time, van Ruymbeke was investigating possible bribes in the 1991 frigate sale. The lists quickly proved to be false, and several of the people named on them pressed charges for "false denunciation".
A list of 895 secret bank accounts was included which were open by numerous personalities from the business world (including Alain Gomez, Peter Martinez, Philippe Delmas) or politics (including Nicolas Sarkozy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Laurent Fabius, Alain Madelin and Jean-Pierre Chevenement), reportedly passing money for frigates. In particular, lists of secret accounts sent by the raven were trafficked to foreign personalities involved in the Taiwan frigates affair. A survey on the implementation of these fake was then entrusted to judges Jean-Marie d'Huy and Henri Pons.
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