Belgian Justice Emulates to Garzón

 

 

Taking into account that British imperialism does not have reasons to go on the contrary against Pinochet but - and it is being seen once totally surpassed contentious the Hispanic Chilean around the process of appropriation of Enersis by ENDESA Spain in April-May of the last year, the Spanish factual powers gave by finalized the assignment of his apparatus of justice represented in this and other many cases by his "judge it stars", Balthasar Garzón. As of that moment, the destiny of Pinochet seemed to happen to be exclusive question of a cannon to three bands of the secret diplomacy between London, Madrid and Santiago of Chile. But the solution of the case has to be delayed because the Belgian capitals of the armament have decided to place diagonally in the subject extra tapir work to some of their judges.

According to it reports Tortoro journalist, at the moment is an open judicial investigation in Belgium respect to a millionaire business of airplanes battle that the Chilean Air Force acquired in 1994. One is twenty airplanes Mirage Mirsip. The data of the judicial investigation have been contributed by Belgian judicial pesquistas and the investigation that journalists Philippe Brewaeys and Frank Garbely made, a work of compilation of antecedents to which the Chilean magazine has been added Full stop.

The case has had its origins in the last years of the decade of the 80, when the Chilean Air Force decided to replace the old huntings Hawker Hunter of its Group Nº 8. Until 1993, the specialists had on the table several alternatives and offers: Kfir C-2 and C-7 of Israel; Jaguar of the British Aerospace; Cheetah South African; Gripen of Sweden; Russian MIG-29s and Su-27; F-16 North American. Supplies exceeded, and finally the FACH was decided by the Mirage of the French Marcel Dassault, airplanes of property of the Belgian Air Force that had been modernized by local company SABCA.

Always according to Tortoro, in 1994 the long chain of commercial treatments began, payments of commissions and deposits in banking accounts whereupon the business was materialized. The thing was asi ': First, the Belgian government sold the airplanes to company SABCA. The operator of the transaction was the general in Belgian retirement, Jacques Lefebvre, who not only made the sale, but that in addition mediated in the operation of modernization of the apparatuses. Shortly before this negotiating, Lefebvre had come carrying out like head from the cabinet of the minister of Defense of president Paul Vanden Boeynants. During the operation, this ex- Belgian military bureaucrat acted like general administrator of the French company of commercialization of arms, Europavia, simultaneously associated with two recognized international retailers of called arms Philippe Chauveau and Mohamad Bashi.

Thus he was like the Mirage, property of the Belgian SABCA, were jointly sold by this company and the Europavia French (represented by Lefebvre), to one third part by a total of 109 million dollars, by interval of a called company Berthier International, with seat in the British Virgin Islands and with mailing dress in the city of Miami. According to declarations of own general Lefebvre, this company was a "Chilean device" that operated in coordination with another company, Combak S.A., located in Santiago (Seminary 790, 2º Floor A), directed by a Belgian citizen, Francois de Smet d'Olbecke, that resides in Chile from 1948 and is proprietor of thousands of hectares in the South end. By interval of this last company, Berthier made agile the sale of the airplanes to the FACH, serving like intermediary the Chilean industralist as Hungarian origin, Carlos Honzik, owner of company DECOPAL (Currency 812, office 801), dedicated to the representation of Swiss companies of manufacture of material military.

In agreement with the data contributed by Tortoro, the commissions by this business reached the 15 million dollars, of which 14.5 million went to stop to accounts administered by the mysterious Berthier International, the "Chilean device", and to a Swiss bank. The Belgian investigators discovered documents that they indicated that the commissions had been deposited in the Clariden Bank of Zurich.

When he demanded himself to Lefebvre that explained the destiny and reasons of these money, the general answered with a memorandum: "the documents related to Chile of which they speak are confidential; its spreading would be catastrophic inasmuch as it would put in evidence to Chilean ours contraparte and our agents would see themselves in serious difficulties ". Lefebvre committed suicide the day after writing up this note.

The commissions had followed the call "green footpath", metaphor whereupon the Time magazine has baptized the procedure whereupon it is possible to make disappear the track of million dollars and leave a sign so opaque that it is impossible to reconstruct the route. The mentioned "footpath", in heavy terms, works of the following way: whoever to make disappear a strong sum of money must begin to do deposits, using to a white wood or false name, in the local account of an international bank. From the deposits they are transferred there to an account of "concentration" in the first house of the bank in New York, and sent to the accounts of a "ghost company" somewhere registered like the Virgin Islands Cayman or Islands. These accounts, protected by the banking secret, are transferred like investment titles, in actions and bonds, to accounts deprived in the Swiss, English bank or of Luxembourg.

If like it is certain according to has seen, that the military bureaucracy directed by Pinochet maintains the control on the commerce of arms between Chile and the rest of the world, Belgian justice in this case, like the Spanish in the Enersis case, although to "last bull" has exceeded reasons to use the "defense of the human rights" in the perspective strategic to end the sooner the residual effects of the dictatorship in that country. It is that, like we have explained or following Lenin, in the measurement in which the acts of bribe and bribe return very out of proportion onerous characteristic of the fusion between the governments and stock-market in the stage of delayed Capitalism, the effective bureaucratic political privileges in countries like Chile, Yugoslavia or Iraq, anyone is its ideology they obstruct and they slow down the inevitable centralization of the imperialistic capital. And this is intolerable for the bourgeois system as a whole, dominated at the moment by that irreversible objective historical tendency; still more in a key market like the Chilean, who rides today on two prolíficos material supports of direct production of plusvalor, like the electrical energy and the armaments.

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