Former Papeete editor Jean Pascal Couraud today remains at the centre of French political megascandal – 12 years after he went missing.
Just yesterday, the judge investigating the disappearance of Couraud made his third formal request to courts in Japan.
"Investigations have revealed a significant financial transaction from Polynesia to Japan, during a economically and legally questionable property deal, conducted in 1995 among a group of investors led by Tahitian Reginald Flosse, son of Gaston Flosse, and Japanese businessmen in the EIE Resort Group," Justice Jean-François Redonnet is quoted as saying by Le Monde daily.
He is asking for more information regarding a once secret bank accounts held by former French president, Jacques Chirac, and his French Polynesian counterpart, Gaston Flosse.
At the same time, Redonnet issued instructions to police to look up FICOBA records for evidence of any Chirac bank accounts between 1996 and 2002.
Previous requests to Japan courts have seen officials at the Tokyo Sawa Bank say they could not find details for any accounts prior to 1999.
Meantime, Flosse, the man at the centre of allegations surrounding the disappearance of Couraud saw his party re-elected to power last week – from a jail cell.
Flosse was detained for questioning on corruption charges.
However the majority of just one vote has been called into question because Flosse cannot attend sittings of the territorial assembly.
Jean Pascal Couraud went missing on a full moon Monday night, 15th December 1997.
Hours before he disappeared, Jean Pascal Couraud had been set to expose links to the world's biggest banking scandal.
JPK has not been seen since then.
His body has not been found.
Couraud's disappearance helped cover up what leading French judges call the "black box" of global finance – Clearstream.
Including a truly astonishing us$1.5 trillion in "false assets", L'Affaire Clearstream is the French version of the US Enron scandal – 1000 times larger.
Questions remain.
Where Enron in the US went into meltdown with us$14 billion, Clearstream is an unexploded dirty bomb centring around "false assets".
Clearstream is at least thirty times bigger than the Madoff scandal – and that was back in 2001, almost a decade ago.
An official police inquiry into JPK dates back to October 2004.
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