| Posted on 17-Nov-2003 19:18 GMT by bbrv | 161 comments
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At today's hearing of the Tribunal of Commerce in Paris a judgment was rendered declaring Pretory, S.A. in bankruptcy and appointing a receiver. The process finally will now begin to transfer Thendic-France's assets to Genesi SARL.
Our situation with Pretory S.A. has been a long and difficult one. In all matters we have cooperated with the French Government and agreed to close the Company in a coordinated and proper manner. Time will demonstrate that we have behaved properly and legally in all respects as shareholders and managers.
In no way will these matters effect Genesi. Finally, we are personally free to devote the time and resources we want to the Genesi.
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
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| Posted by Amon_Re on 19-Nov-2003 22:10 GMT | Summerised:
"http://www.liberation.com/page.php?Article=145524"
- Locked for paying people only (rats!)
"http://www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/2003-04-15/2003-04-15-370369"
- First paragraphe explains that Pretory is a security company, and that they
are responsible for the safety on the "sensitive" flights.
- Second one are "testimonies" of people working at Pretory, complaining about,
amongst others, lack of control on the people they hire, no training, a
hellish timeshedule (flying to 3 different timezones in one week), they aren't
allowed to search pasagers, no means to detain offending passagers, some don't
speak french, others don't speak English, people who get fired keeping their
badges (and gaining access to sensitive area's on the airport...
- Explication that Pretory also does "financial fraud & social fraud" investigations.
However, their employees only work 15 hours a month on paper (in reality
they do 150 - 200 hours a month) and are paid from the UK.
- They mention that the old director got shafted & replaced by William Buck,
"West Point" is mentioned, same as allegded ties to the FBI (if this is true
then i don't want beer :P)
- Explication as to how this all got out of the closet (Air france doing an audit.)
Accusation of bribing people, like eg Joël Cathala, the guy who decided that
Pretory would be in charge of security.
- Further allegations towards Joël Cathala & his involvement with GAL
(assasinations etc in Spain of ETA members etc etc)
Ok, this was a rather long article, and i'm abit tired so i might have missed some details.
"http://securite3.monblogue.com/commentaires/securite3/10423"
- Introduction as to what & why Pretory does & is needed.
Same as above, the complaint that it's employees are not, or porely trained
for the job.
- Mentioning of Jacques Gaussens, founder of Pretory & ex cop getting shafted
Accusations of fraud, and other bad practices.
- This gets intresting, it tells the tale of Jacques & the start of Pretory.
In 1997 the Americans arived: "En 1997, il voit arriver les «Américains» (en
fait, une Française, ancienne hôtesse d'UTA, Raquel Velasco, et son ami de
coeur, Bill Buck, militaire américain reconverti dans les affaires)"
Wich translates to: 'Actually, a french woman, previously a hostess for UTA,
Raquel Velasco, and her close friend, Bill Buck, an American soldier/officer
that went into bussinesses'
The article then states that in 1996 they (BBRV) posed themselves as if they
took over a part of Escom (Amiga?) only to then disapear.
The article then questions what they were doing at Pretory, and according to
Joël Cathala, who was witness to BBRV's wedding (and the guy responsible for
the savety of the airport), and it was him who braught them to Pretory.
They then formed Pretory USA, and invested in promising new technologies,
they convinced Gaussens to sell Pretory france to them for 13% of the capital
of Pretory.
- Again mentioning of West Point & ties with the feds.
- Tells how Pretory got into Air France & hits at favouritism, then mentions
Thendic, who were supposed to make a detector for Explosives, wich never realised.
- Final paragraph mentions the formation of Genesi, and the attempt to buy
Thendic France (who is run by Rachel's brother, Thierry Velasco).
They mention that Thendic France has a 'bad past', i suppose financially, and
that most of it was paid with the money from Pretory.
Ok, i think i have said the important stuff.
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