Showing posts with label Denis Robert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denis Robert. Show all posts

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Journalist Denis Robert vs Clearstream Luxembourg wins the final round

This is a long and murky story of freedom of speech, libel, banking secrecy, illicit funds and more. Investigative journalist Denis Robert suffered through years of legal proceedings. A Luxembourg saying says "you can't win against the bank". I always disagreed, but it takes some guts, maybe some money because the banks have more of that. Here is one of the examples of such a win, though it is in the French courts:


I'll elaborate as this link points to a French site. But the implications are significant. This decision gets top ratings in publicity as jurisprudence, as it is vastly published at all levels of the French system. I don't know the journalist, but probably this is a sweet revenge and a green light to speak out more.