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Steal according to conscience

April 7, 2010 Vladimir Nadein

The Federal Judge of the Washington District (USA) approved an agreement by which the German car giant “Daimler”, accused of violating the law on bribes to foreign governments, agreed to pay 185 million dollars of criminal and civilian fines for the love of cases recently excited by the US Department of Justice. On the first of April, this money entered the American state budget. Judge Richard J. Leon, before solemnly hit the table with a wooden hammer, called this deal a “fair decision”.

To say that this decision is fair means to say nothing. It is blasphemous. It is difficult to find an example of more shameless violation of truth. The Americans again showed that their greed is immense and inexorable. This is evidenced by ... no, every fact and every figure scream about this.

Judge for yourself. For 10 years, from 1998 to 2008, Daimler bribed government officials in 22 countries. The Germans took 56 million dollars to bribes. This brought the concern an additional income of $ 1.9 billion. Of these, 91.4 million dollars are a direct benefit from transactions that simply would not have taken place without bribes.

However, there are no United States among these 22 countries. This did not prevent the Americans from interfering with their investigation. Investigators from the US Department of Justice hunted for a long time for bribeers from Daimler. They found that the concern acted differently in different countries, taking into account national specifics.

Say, in China it is customary to shoot sales officials. Therefore, the Chinese are afraid of everything. They are afraid, but take it. To extinguish fears, 16 luxurious entertainment trips were organized for six high -ranking Chinese tangerines - to Paris and Venice. Through third countries, through the mysterious turburine-one-day.

But again - what does the Americans have to do with it?

“Daimler” to the Philippines very cunningly crept up. They had a stolen an influential official from Manila, whose daughter married. We found some kind of relative of the bride, the seventh water on Kiseel. They gave a relative a gift at a cost of a couple of million dollars. He handed the gift to the bride allegedly from himself. And then the official, who did not seem to suspect everything about everything, gave an instruction to purchase several armored “Merc”.

An individual approach, but each time successfully “Daimler” bred to buy radiants from Nigeria, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Vietnam ... In Turkmenistan, the country of simple deserted morals, the imposing woman was simply brought for $ 330 thousand - well, he was penetrating.

Our homeland occupies a very special place in this series. And not only thanks to Tchaikovsky with Dostoevsky. Greeks, Croats, Turks - all of them acted on the principle of "money in the evening - chairs in the morning." That is greedy, but cowardly. Why and lit up in the Daimler's accounting column with the suspicious name “necessary expenses”.

Domestic bureaucracy is original. It steals with an open hack. We will make a side of the wedding in the gondolas. We are annoyed by European timidity. We saw our own budget and do not allow us to interfere in our internal affairs. Moreover, people from the street are not sawing. They sawed bosses in lamps invisible to the world, representing the following institutions of the Russian Federation:

- Federal Security Service

- Ministry of the Interior

- The Ministry of Defense

- City Hall of Moscow, Ufa and New Urengoy.

I will not say, as in Greece, but in our Fatherland, from Urengoy to Lubyanka, the budget is drunk with kickbacks. Rolling - it is like polonium. No smell, no traces. It is not clear how the Americans managed this penetration. It is not clear how the bribes of five million dollars were felt. Just some magical espionage. I can’t even believe that we stole the atomic bomb with them, and not with us.

Having collected all these data in one folder, American investigators came to their American court. Judge Leon did not arrest anyone and did not put on the wanted list. He simply gave the people from the Daimler to read these pieces of paper, and they immediately understood everything. The German concern was threatened with serious troubles: a fine, the seizure of all illegally profitable, the ban on participating in American state purchases and the introduction of foreign observation of future transactions.

Daimler hurried to the court with sincere confession. As a certificate of remorse, he proposed to accept $ 185 million. The court accepted the money and took it. In the sense - America. And yet, as if in a mockery, he authorized the former Director of the CIA Luis Frey not to take his eyes off the underside of the German business. Good work - for three years, washing and at the expense of the audited.

And so this disgrace Judge Leon considers all this disgrace "fair decision." But if by and large, then what does the Americans have to do with it? Why do they have such grandmas? They did not give bribes, they did not receive bribes, they did not saw the budgets. And all the benefits - to yourself.

This is not good. This is the dictate of the superpower in its pure form. If it is true that all the noise due to bribes in the size of $ 56 million, then those 5 million that our officials stole, should not be abusive in vain. We must get our fair share. We must urgently contact the UN so that the United States is transferred to us at least 11.2 million. Not Gazprom, of course, but also does not lie on the road.

Otherwise, the paradox is obtained: the more we steal, the richer the Americans become. This is even me, liberal liberal, and it’s a shame. Can you imagine what the patriot of a healthy sovereign outlive is? We are here to Tyrim, and they rise from the knees there.

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