As for Mr. Sarkozy, he would be in a position to fund his re-election. The DCNS management, a naval defence company based in France and one of Europe’s leading shipbuilders, has in recent years been implicated in various corruption scandals: the sale of warships to Taiwan, to Saudi Arabia ("Sawari") as well as the sale of submarines to Pakistan yielded commissions and kickbacks profiting political figures whose identity was never disclosed.
La Direzione delle costruzioni navali francese è stata coinvolta, negli ultimi anni, in diversi casi di corruzione: le fregate vendute a Taiwan, altre vendute all’Arabia Saudita (Sawari), e sottomarini venduti al Pakistan, sono stati oggetto di commissioni e retro-commissioni a favore di politici mai identificati pubblicamente. In questi tre casi, i nomi di Edouard Balladur e Nicolas Sarkozy sono stati citati, ma in assenza di prove.