Alizee Nation: Alizée

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Alizée - Clearstream

Let's get this over with. It is in the news, it is not really anything for us, but Alizée's name was mentioned.

Clearstream. What is that? Politics - L'Affaire Clearstream
It involves Former French Premier Villepin and current President Nicolas Sarkozy.

According to Bloomberg:
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told a Paris court today that he didn’t know a list of names, including Nicolas Sarkozy, allegedly tied to corrupt bank accounts, was fake.
He is accused of complicity in a smear campaign against Sarkozy, to tar him ahead of their party’s decision on whom to nominate for the 2007 presidential election.
The trial is focused on the list of more than 100 business figures, politicians and celebrities supposedly holding secret accounts at Clearstream, purportedly linked to kickbacks in a 1991 frigate sale to Taiwan. The document surfaced in 2004 and was given to a judge probing the payments. It was exposed as a fake and several people, including Sarkozy, complained that it was a plot to tar them as corrupt.

So this list of names was exposed as a fake.

From Reuters India:
While investigating money laundering and financial corruption, he came into the possession of Clearstream documents that seemed to implicate some of France's biggest names, from President Nicolas Sarkozy to Alizee, a popular variety artist.
He soon realised the documents had been faked but the case set off an unprecedented court battle, in which former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is accused of trying to use the bogus material to stop his rival Sarkozy winning power.

Some of the names on the list registered a complaint, some have not.

From LATRIBUNE.fr:
Some named persons, as the actress Laetitia Casta or the singer Alizee, or firms, as Euro RSCG, did not lodge a complaint.

There. Alizée's name is in the news. I hope the translations and interpretations hold up. It appears that she did not lodge a complaint and would not be involved in this. But her name is mentioned and we addressed it.