Imad Lahoud

Imad Lahoud (born with the Lebanon the October 7th 1967) is a Business man and Informaticien French quoted in several politico-financial businesses, in particular the Affaire Clearstream 2.

Family ties

Imad Lahoud is the son of Victor Lahoud, military career Lebanese, officer of Cavalerie and old of the École of application of cavalry of Saumur, which left Beirut with its family in 1982 and died in 1990.

Victor Lahoud was introduced a long time in the press like an officer of information having taken part with Pierre Rondot, itself father of Philippe Rondot, with the creation of the Syrian intelligence services and Lebanese under French mandate. Actually, the father of Imad Lahoud spent fifteen months to the 2nd Lebanese office in 1971-1972, at the time of a normal stage of career. The Lebanese creator of the secret services is colonel Saad, whose assistant, who succeeded to him, was Gaby Lahoud, without family ties with Imad. ( Le Monde , May 30th, 2006)

Imad Lahoud is the brother of Marwan Lahoud, old CEO of MBDA, the branch missile of EADS resulting from the fusion of the Aérospatiale and the missiles Matra and new Managing director of EADS, named in June 2007.

The supposed relationship of Imad and Marwan with the general Emile Lahoud, president of the Republic of the Lebanon was a long time maintained by Imad itself. Because of width taken by the Business Clearstream 2 in France in April 2006, the presidency of the Lebanese Republic had to affirm in an official statement that Imad does not have any family ties with the Head of the State Emile Lahoud, even if this last has a fore-mentioned nephew Imad well. (Ironically, Arabic Imad means also general, the rank of president Lahoud. Emile Lahoud is thus called Imad Lahoud, which wants to say the Lahoud general.)

Imad Lahoud marries Anne-Gabrielle Heilbronner on July 9th, 1991. This one is adviser in charge with the budget and the international economic questions near the Foreign Minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy. She was before director of cabinet of Eric Woerth, Secretary of State to the reform of the State.

Imad Lahoud is thus the son-in-law of François Heilbronner, former assistant editor and director of the cabinet of the Prime Minister Jacques Chirac (of 1975 to 1976 and 1986) before being appointed chairman of the group of insurances GAN.

Course

It was born in a Christian family Maronite from the Lebanon.

Imad Lahoud makes a control of mathematics, then obtains two DEA in 1990 and 1991, one of solid state physics, the other of probabilities and random processes, which will be worth to him a recruiting at Merrill Lynch in London. As opposed to what it could affirm, it is not a former student of the National university of the street of Ulm.

Imad Lahoud began its financial career by managing the funds from Arab rich person families. It spends four years to London at which a stay at Solomon Brothers.

In 1998, it created the funds Volter Funds Ltd: 40 million euros lodged with the Virgin Islands and managed by HL Gestion (HL for Heilbronner and Lahoud). GAN, Fortis and AGF invests there. Imad Lahoud was the subject then of a report of Eric Rochant, Traders , which passed on Arte on April 10th, 2001.

The funds goes bankrupt in three days with the rupture of the bubble of new technologies, at the summer 2000. Fortis carries felt sorry for in July 2000 for swindle and use of forgery. Imad Lahoud makes three months of detention pending trial to the Prison of Health.

At the beginning of February 2003, he collaborates punctually with DGSE (Head office of the exterior security) to fight against the financing of the Terrorisme, but this collaboration takes quickly fine at the end of May.

According to the Release of May 3rd, 2006, he claimed to hold information on operations of “clean Noircissement of money” worms of the clandestine funds around the family Bin Laden until the beginning of 2001. At the request of the general Philippe Rondot, ten meetings were organized between the DGSE and Imad Lahoud January in April 2003. Missions of recovery of documents were then programmed, but “each time something did not stick”. In April 2003, the DGSE stopped this collaboration. The judges seized the “file of contact” with Imad Lahoud during their searching with the DGSE at the end of March 2006.

Until June 2004, he works at the sides of the Rondot general, in charge with the ministry of the Defense of the coordination of the intelligence services and special operations.

He is then recruited in 2004 by Jean-Louis Gergorin with EADS as consultant then is named in 2005 scientific director at the research center of Suresnes. He was laid off by EADS in May 2006.

Source

Article of Nouvelobs.com

Business Clearstream 2

Imad Lahoud denies any implication in this business and is supposed innocent.

According to notes of the DST ever published, but abundantly quoted in the press, Imad Lahoud is suspecté to be the author of the anonymous letters and Cd-ROMs sent to the judge Renaud van Ruymbeke informing the Affaire of the frigates of Taiwan. These anonymous documents are at the origin of the Affaire Clearstream 2.

Bonds with EADS : Imad Lahoud is the brother of Marwan Lahoud, old CEO of MBDA, the branch missile of EADS and new Managing director of EADS, named in June 2007. In June 2003, Imad Lahoud enters the aeronautical group EADS. It would have been recruited with EADS by Jean-Louis Gergorin, then vice-president of EADS, is responsible for the strategy of the group, on recommendation of the general Philippe Rondot. At the summer 2004, it is responsible for the computer security in a research center of EADS. He would have thus discovered a fault of the software of the Blackberry. He worked for the safety of the information systems embarked at Airbus.

Bonds with the general Philippe Rondot : Imad Lahoud is the son of a Lebanese senior officer. In 2003, Jean-Louis Gergorin presents Imad Lahoud to the Rondot general, to adviser of the Minister for Defense for the information and special operations. Imad Lahoud affirms capacity to help DGSE to fight against Islamic terrorism by its knowledge of the networks of international finance.

Bonds with the DGSE : From February in June 2003, Imad Lahoud works for the DGSE like “voluntary”, commonly called a Honourable corresponding .

Bonds with the journalist Denis Robert : In March 2003, Imad Lahoud meets in its house close to Metz the writer-journalist Denis Robert for his knowledge of the system Clearstream. According to Denis Robert, the writer-journalist gives a CD-ROM containing to him the listings of Clearstream accounts, which will contradict Imad Lahoud in front of the judges. According to Philippe Rondot, Imad Lahoud also copies its hard drive at the time one moment of carelessness of its host. “ When the business leaves in the press , said to the Monde Denis Robert, I note that the listings are comparable with the miens: even typography, same expressions and topics approached in our conversations and included in the mails sent to the judge. I spoke about it in Imad. He said to me: I will explain you. And the bridges were broken. ” In fine not published of its last book the Domination of the world posted on its blog, Denis Robert puts in scene a “ corbeau ” writing with an examining magistrate at the conclusion of an investigation of a journalist against a multinational of finance.

Bonds with Florian Bourges : Florian Bourges is a former listener of Arthur Andersen heard like witness by the judges on June 7th, 2006. It would have obtained the files Clearstream originals at the time of one official audit of Clearstream in the continuations of the exit of Révélation$ of Denis Robert. Florian Bourges would have given of the authentic and anonymous listings of Clearstream accounts to Imad Lahoud in September 2003. He noticed a resemblance between columns of his own files and the forgeries given to judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke in spring 2004. Imad Lahoud would have used the pseudonym “ MatrixNeo ” on the forgeries as on its computer appraised by justice. According to him, Imad Lahoud, employee with EADS, were made pass for an agent of the secret services working on the financing of terrorism to be made give the Clearstream files.

Meetings with Nicolas Sarkozy : In October 2006, Imad Lahoud stated “to have met” Nicolas Sarkozy “twice” in 2004 “to evoke” this file, which the Minister of Interior Department, civil part in this business, contradicted. He had denied any meeting before this date and this declaration seems moved by the exit on November 16th, 2006 of the book " a French fiasco " by the journalist of the Barber Eric Decouty. ( Le Monde of November 3rd, 2006)

Intrusion in the system of Clearstream : According to the Rondot general, Imad Lahoud would have penetrated in front of him, twice, the computing system of Clearstream. At the time of these communications on line, Imad Lahoud would then have shown him the accused personal accounts. This intrusion was denied by its lawyer Me Olivier Pardo.

Supposed innocent : Imad Lahoud denies any implication in this business, like Jean-Louis Gergorin. At the time of a press conference on April 28th, 2006, it reaffirmed that “ gave neither to the DGSE nor to the Rondot general of the files handled, adulterated or disguised ”. It confirmed to have recovered a CD-ROM of Clearstream accounts at Denis Robert and to have entrusted it the very same day to a collaborator of the general Dominique Champtiaux, principal private secretary of Pierre Brochand, director of DGSE.

Procedure : May 12th, 2006, its private residence is again searched by the judges Jean-Marie d' Huy and Henri Pons within the framework of the business Clearstream 2. Computer material was seized. Previously, its residence had already been searched in April 2005 and its office at EADS in March 2006. Imad Lahoud was placed as a police custody on June 7th, 2006 in the morning. Its setting in examination for “ libelous denunciation, false and use of faux ” on June 9th, 2006 was notified to him.

References

Clearstream Business: Imad Lahoud affirms to have " met twice " Nicolas Sarkozy , Le Monde, November 3rd, 2006

Other businesses

Business of Volter Fund Ltd

Imad Lahoud was the organizer of the funds of investment Volter Fund (or Volter Funds Ltd), associated with his/her father-in-law François Heilbronner, old directing GAN. This speculative bottom ( hedge fund ) recorded in the British Virgin Islands managed up to 42 million dollars of investments. It went bankrupt in 2000 with the collapse of the technological values.

October 2nd, 2000, Imad Lahoud and its father-in-law François Heilbronner were the subject of a setting in examination for worsened swindle. Lahoud is also suspected of having established false valorizations of the shares of Volter Funds Ltd to heading of its company (HL Gestion). It would have given instructions to thirds so that they proceed in the same way. These documents could have deadened the mistrust of the investors and have prevented that they do not balance their placements.

Entrusted to the judge Jean-Marie d' Huy, who also informs the Affaire Clearstream 2, this investigation waits since more than one year with the return of an international letters rogatory in Great Britain.

A partner of golf

In February 2001, Imad Lahoud would have received 100.000 euros of one of its partners of golf, Michel Pomaret. This last affirms that this sum should have been invested on an account registered securities in an financial institution. Lahoud would have boxed this money to reinvest it in its own companies. When Pomaret required of him by summary procedure what had become its money, Lahoud produced a document with heading of Fidus SAL (a Lebanese finance company of the Group General society), mentioning one to have in the name of Pomaret of an amount of 3 215,18 euros. Actually, this document was a forgery, the account had never existed.

Imad Lahoud was put in examination at the beginning of the summer 2002, for forgery and complicity of forgery, by the judges Valerie Salmeron and Isabelle Prévost-Desprez. Fidus S.A.L constituted civil part. She claims in Lahoud of the damages for “forgery and use of forgery”.

In March 2004, Imad Lahoud is challenged and placed as a police custody in this business. According to the account made by the Rondot general with the judges, Dominique de Villepin, Minister of Interior Department, telephoned to him to require “ of him; to leave Lahoud là ”. The examining magistrate charged with the file ordered its handing-over in freedom before Mr. Rondot does not intervene.

This business was to be judged on May 17th, 2006, it was deferred because of the hospitalization for depression of Lahoud. Finally, the magistrates' court of Paris condemned Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Imad Lahoud to six months of suspended sentence and 65 000 euros of damages to have misused the confidence of its former associate Michel Pomaret by diverting the 100 000 euros that this last had entrusted to him.

October 10th, 2006, Imad Lahoud was placed as a police custody by the financial brigade for this business.

PSL Golf

With Michel Pomaret, Imad Lahoud also invested in PSL Golf, a company of edition and promotion of the image of large golfeurs whose Imad Lahoud is the manager. The management of this company is also aimed by justice.

January 12th, 2006, to the return of the first letters of request, the parquet floor of Paris granted to the examining magistrate an indictment back-up troop for abuse of corporate asset of 196.787 euros to the profit of Imad Laoud.

A shelter with the DGSE and EADS

In a letter of May 2005 to Philippe Marland, the principal private secretary of Michele Alliot-Marie, the Rondot general estimated that the will of Lahoud to return to the DGSE or in any other administration, was justified by the will to shelter justice.

In August 2006, the advisory Commission of the secrecy of national defense (CCSDN) gave its agreement for the declassification of the file of enabling of Imad Lahoud to work for EADS. The CCSDN gave “an favorable opinion with the declassification of the file of enabling of Imad Lahoud, except, if necessary, of the mentions in technical matter or intern whose protection appears necessary to the minister”. It now belongs to the Minister for Defense to come to a conclusion about this request of justice.

References

Blows of bluff of Imad Lahoud , Le Monde , May 30th, 2006
Poor secret agent, good chief of scientific team, Le Monde , May 30th, 2006
Imad Lahoud forger supposed in several legal affairs , Marianne , May 23rd, 2006
Imad Lahoud known as to have been on mission for the DGSE , Reuters , May 19th, 2006
Mrs Lahoud with the Quay of Orsay , Release , May 4th, 2006
Imad Lahoud, free-lance adviser , Release , May 3rd, 2006
Eric Decouty, Clearstream: the corbel tracked in the alleys of the capacity , Le Figaro , Documentary April 18th, 2006
of Eric Rochant
protagonists, the Clearstream business, portraits, Nouvelobs.com

External bond

Company PSL GOLF on societe.com

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