Jean-Louis Gergorin

Jean-Louis Gergorin (1946 -) is old a Diplomate and Business man French. énarque Polytechnicien and , it was, before the Affaire Clearstream 2, executive vice-president of the group EADS.

Biography

Former student of the Polytechnic school (promotion 1966).

Former student of ENA. Promotion 1972 " Charles-of-Gaulle" (with Alain Juppe, Dominique Perben, Louis Gallois, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Jerome Clement).

Beginning 1970: It joined the Council of State at its exit of ENA.

It enters to the Rand Corporation (Santa Monica, California) near to the American conservatives and the Complexe American militaro-industrialist.

1973 - 1984: It directs the Center of analysis and forecast (CAPE) of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs with Thierry de Montbrial. It then like subordinated the young diplomat Dominique de Villepin and become acquainted there with the future general Philippe Rondot and of Philippe Delmas, future leader of Airbus. It passes the alternation of 1981 without encumbers and meets Régis Debray, François Mitterrand (1983) and Hubert Védrine (1984). It weaves very close links with Claude Cheysson. In 1979, it become acquainted there with the general Philippe Rondot, specialist in the military information. " I have even the memory that it is Gergorin, that I estimated, who had strongly supported the proposal to integrate Rondot into the DST " , in 1986, known as Yves Bonnet, former director of DST. In 1981, it recruits Dominique de Villepin, resulting from the direction of the African and Malagasy businesses.

In September 1984, it integrates the group Matra. He is director of the strategy of the group and special adviser of Jean-Luc Lagardere. He is one of the direct collaborators of Jean-Luc Lagardere and takes part in the rise of the group Matra. He will take part for this reason in the conflicts against the competitor Thomson (become Thalès) directed then by Alain Gomez.

One of these conflicts is held of 1992 to 1997, when Thomson, shortly after fusion disputed with Hachette and the fiasco of the Five , would have gone up with the complicity of a Intermédiaire and American lawyer of Chinese origin , William Lee, an operation of destabilization of the Lagardere group, said operation “Couper the wings of the bird”. It was a question for Thomson of cutting Matra on several markets of armament with Taiwan (Frégates Lafayette, planes Mirage 2000, missiles). In this business, it was shown to have bought the services of DST for 300.000 francs in liquid delivered in a sport bag (what it will always deny).

At the end of the Years 1990, he is the craftsman with Philippe Camus of fusion between Aérospatiale and Matra then of the creation of EADS and the integrated company Airbus. Jean-Louis Gergorin also plays an important role in the bringing together with the Germans, which allows, in 2000, the fusion of the activities of Matra - Aérospatiale with Dasa and Spanish Casa. He is a Honourable corresponding of the French intelligence services (DGSE and DST).

With died of Jean-Luc Lagardere, in March 2003, Jean-Louis Gergorin is persuaded that it is about an assassination. A Preliminary investigation required by the Public prosecutor of Paris is classified without continuation.

In May 2003, it takes part, with Philippe Camus and Thierry de Montbrial, with the meeting of the group Bilderberg with the castle of Versailles.

He was vice-president of strategic coordination at EADS since 2000 and member of the executive committee of EADS. It was for this reason responsible for the economic Intelligence.
In the wars of being able within EADS, it supported Philippe Camus against Noel Forgeard, then owner of Airbus in the race with the French presidency of the group of aeronautics EADS. During two years, the couples Philippe Camus - Jean-Louis Gergorin and Noel Forgeard - Philippe Delmas will be opposed by interposed press.

University lecturer with the Institute of political studies of Paris, he is also member of the Board of directors of the Institut of international relations and strategic (IRIS). and of the very élitiste club the Century.

Friendly near to Dominique de Villepin, Jean-Louis Gergorin was made officer of the National order of the Merit by Dominique de Villepin in her office in April 2004.

He is member of the executive committee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

He is Chevalier of the Légion of honor and Officier of the Order of Merit.

Business Clearstream 2

Jean-Louis Gergorin and Imad Lahoud were presented in notes of analysis of DST (Direction of the monitoring of the territory) as the possible informers in the Affaire Clearstream 2 without evidence not being brought. DST evokes like reason a conflict between Jean-Louis Gergorin and Philippe Delmas, then number two of Airbus. The lawyer of Mr. Gergorin, Paul-Albert Iweins, denounces the exploitation of these notes “based on rumors and press articles” and also evokes “the assumption of a handling assembled against his customer”.

Familiar of the mediums of the information, it would have introduced the data processing specialist Imad Lahoud to the general Philippe Rondot. It would have also made it recruit with EADS in March - June 2003.

Inquire and procedure

Within the framework of this business, its office with EADS and its residence were the subject of a searching at the beginning of April 2006. Its residence had already been searched first once in April 2005. Other leaders of EADS saw their office searched at the beginning of April 2006, like Noel Forgeard, vice-president of group EADS, and Gustav Humbert, chairman of Airbus.

In January 2004, Jean-Louis Gergorin would have given the listings Clearstream to Dominique de Villepin, then Foreign Minister, This last would then have ordered an investigation with the general Philippe Rondot, close adviser of Michele Alliot-Marie. The steps of Jean-Louis Gergorin intervened whereas a war of succession was held to EADS between Philippe Camus, his superior, and Noel Forgeard.

In its edition of May 10th, 2006, the satiric weekly the Duck connected affirms that the number two of EADS Jean-Louis Gergorin is the author of the first anonymous letter addressed to the judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke in May 2004. This one did not contain names of policies.

Jean-Louis Gergorin and the lawyer Thibault de Montbrial met secretly on April 30th, 2004 the judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke to deliver pseudo-information to him on the data-processing listings. According to him, personalities of the whole world held accounts at Clearstream, credited with sums of fraudulent origin. Jean-Louis Gergorin would have refused that the discussion with judge Van Ruymbeke is recorded in procedure, and that the listings are given to him officially, by pretexting that it feared for his life. A few days later, on May 3rd, 2004 the judge received a letter of the hands of Thibault de Montbrial taking again the information delivered by Gergorin.

In June 2004, two other mails and a CD-ROM really anonymous these, took again the pseudo-information delivered during maintenance and delivered many names of personalities: policies (of which Nicolas Sarkozy), high police force, industry of the armament, ministry for defense. The Duck known as to be unaware of if these letters come with the same hand.

It was the May 10th 2006, to its request, discharged from its functions within the group EADS so, says it, to better be able to defend oneself in this business. The May 18th and 19th 2006, in interviews published in the press, he admits having met the judge Renaud van Ruymbeke and to have addressed to him two letters under cover of anonymity in agreement with the judge. Following its declarations, Noel Forgeard, executive president of EADS, required that a procedure of dismissal be committed against Jean-Louis Gergorin.

According to Airy Routier, Jean-Louis Gergorin went at the end of May 2006 to meet the Intermédiaire anglo-Iraqi Nadhmi Auchi in London a few days before its police custody and its setting in examination. (" the plot of the paranos " , Albin Michel, 2006)

Jean-Louis Gergorin, put in examination on June 2nd, 2006 and left in freedom under judicial control. According to Parisian the of June 7th, 2006, all the magistrates of the financial pole, in particular his chief Catherine Pignon, had decided for its imprisonment. For the magistrates, it was indeed necessary that Jean-Louis Gergorin is écroué " at least the time of the police custody of Imad Lahoud " , allowing a confrontation " hot " of the two protagonists of the Business Clearstream 2.

According to Parisian the of June 7th, 2006, the public prosecutor assistant in charge of the financial businesses, François Fuller, had expressed its agreement on the option of detention.

It is the Public prosecutor of Paris, Jean-Claude Marin, which ordered with the parquet floor to require for simple a Judicial control. François Fuller, his assistant, had to support the line of Jean-Claude Marin, favorable to judicial control. Catherine Pignon would have refused to support this option in front of the Juge of freedoms.

" Did an order come moreover higher not to send Gergorin to Health? " , questions the Parisian one. Indeed, the Public prosecutor of Paris is subjected to the political hierarchy of the Chancellerie, i.e. the Direction of the criminal cases and the graces of the Ministère of Justice and the Minister of Justice Pascal Clément.

During hearings having taken place in July 2007, and following the reconstitution of notes having forwarded on the computer of the Rondot general, J-L Gergorin reveals to have acted only on order of Dominique de Villepin, claiming itself of instructions of the President of the Republic. It then results a centring from it from the investigation around the ex-first minister, last recently of the statute of member of the government to that of ordinary citizen with the formation of a new consecutive government to the election of Nicolas Sarkozy - itself made up civil part in this file -; and leading within extremely fast times to the setting in examination of the former Prime Minister under step less than four different counts of indictment. Monday, August 27, this last announces to give up for the benefit of its hearing by the Court of justice of the Republic.

Rapacities

Jean-Louis Gergorin publishes in March 2007 a work entitled " Rapacités" , in which it reconsiders its role in the Clearstream businesses, dismounts a sophisticated financial mechanism which could have been used to carry out at a certain time of the doubtful transactions within the clearing house (mechanism which does not have any more course today).

It reports there the results of the personal survey which it carried out with the collaboration of Sophie Coignard on the role of the Dirty money in the economy and world geopolitics, as well at the time of the Money laundering as in those which consist in blackening clean money (Noircissement of money), i.e. to extract this one from transparent economic channels to finance the illegal activities, like the political Corruption, the Terrorisme or the Nuclear proliferation.

It draws in particular the attention to the proven criminalisation of whole pieces of the contemporary financial system via the extremely frequent recourse to the services of the Tax shelters with an aim of combining flexibility, intracability and anonymity of the illicit transactions.

According to the author, these practices are spread so much so that they represent today a risk of destabilization for the democracies and their economies. Control of the endemic corruption which gangrene the world financial system would be thus one of the major stakes of the geopolitics of XXIe century.

References

the two lives of Jean-Louis Gergorin , Release, May 3rd, 2006 (by Gregoire BEVEL)
Tension with the parquet floor around Gergorin , nouvelobs.com, June 7th, 2006
the prosecutor denies any conflict with the parquet floor concerning the detention of Mr. Gergorin , Le Monde, June 7th, 2006

Works

Rapacities (with Sophie Coignard), Beech, 2007,

External bonds

Report/ratio classified " Confidential Défense" of the General [[Philippe Rondot]]
All the confidential Clearstream business, and its notes
Biography on the site of International Institute for Strategic Studies
Presentation on the site of the World economic forum

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