INVESTIGATION the documents describe sensors submarines, their communication and navigation systems, and 500 pages are devoted exclusively to torpedo system, the newspaper the Australian …
Paris prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation on Friday the massive leak of confidential technical information from French shipbuilder DCNS for its Scorpene submarines, have we learned from a judicial source.
the initiation of this investigation for breach of trust, complicity and concealment comes after a complaint against X filed Thursday by DCNS. The investigations are carried out by the Central Directorate of Judicial Police.
The disclosure of some 22,400 pages, the daily The Australian says he consulted detail the combat capabilities of Scorpene DCNS designed for the Indian navy and several units which were purchased by Malaysia and Chile. Brazil must also deploy these submarines from 2018.
The leak might also worry Australia, which has awarded a contract in April 50 billion Australian dollars (33 billion euros) military shipbuilding group to design and manufacture its next generation of submersible, dubbed “Barracuda”.
According to the daily, the DCNS group owned 62% by the french State, have suggested that the leak could come from India rather than France. The data, however, could have been washed out of France in 2011 by a former French naval officer who at the time was a subcontractor of DCNS.
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