Talk:Denis Robert

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Untitled[edit]

The description given on the main article miss the point: Clearstream shall not be considered as a political scandal, but as the name of a compagny (the bank of the banks) in which it is possible to make money travel around the world without leaving any published trace. This is mainly what Denis Robert shows in some of his books.

POV[edit]

This article clearly slips out of encyclopedic tone and also shows a clear bias in favor of that section. That section ought to be removed completely or totally rewritten. Cheers V. Joe 20:39, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

POV section removed[edit]

The following section shall be read very carefully. It points the finger at a book which is not the heart of Denis Robert's work. The book "Clearstream: L'Enquete" is interesting, but is just a side order and is pushed under the lights be people who do not want the first two investigation books to be well known.
He has written two other books about his investigation of Clearstream: "La Boite Noire" ("The Black Box")in 2002 and "Clearstream: L'Enquete" ("Clearstream: The Investigation)in 2006. The last one focuses on another aspect of the Clearstream scandal, which implicates several high-ranking French government officials. In 2005, an investigative judge received anonymous letters with extensive Clearstream accounts information and records. Some of these accounts seemed to belong to Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Interior Minister, rival of President Jacques Chirac and his protege, Dominique de Villepin, the Prime Minister of France. Furthermore, the accounts were supposed to be the home of illegal bribe money, tied to a secret arms deal with Taiwan (Taiwan-frigates scandal). As the ensuing investigation showed, the records were obtained from Denis Robert under false pretenses by a Clearstream "insider" who had claimed he could help him with his investigation, but really worked for a French intelligence agency. The investigation also shows the documents were falsified and Nicolas Sarkozy was cleared. In a later development, Dominique de Villepin is now under scrutiny for having allegedly ordered an investigation of Nicolas Sarkozy by French intelligence in order to discredit him and eliminate a political opponent. Some even claim that the falsification of the Clearstream records and the anonymous letters were engineered by Matignon (office of the Prime Minister). On the other hand, it was demonstrated that Sarkozy himself had knew long before he publicly admitted it that he was on the list of alleged holders of illegal Clearstream accounts, but pretended to not be in the known in order to make himself appear as a victim.

Interested readers can see the justification of the tag and subsequent removal. V. Joe 20:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

partial and incorrect information[edit]

The article is totally partial, presenting only the trials lost by Denis Robert, even when these have been reversed by appeal courts. Denis Robert has in fact won nearly all of the trials. The French page looks way more accurate, relating which trials are won, which are still in appeal, which are lost. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.162.179.170 (talk) 10:36, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]