The FERRAYÉ Royalties Affair Historical Background

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KUWAIT 1991

Operation « Desert Storm »
Fraud of the extinction and blockage patents for oil wells

A brief recap of the fraud surrounding the FERRAYÉ patent royalties is available under the link « Introduction ».

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In 1985, five years before Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, Joseph FERRAYÉ built a latex coating and vulcanization machine for carpets. At the time, he was a business owner with his brother at the Société Mont Fleuri Textile in Carros, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

During the construction of this machine, Joseph FERRAYÉ designed a part that would ensure the locking of two mechanical components. It was then that the inventor had a sudden inspiration: his method could be effectively applied in high-pressure environments. It was like a flash of insight! He immediately imagined its application for sealing oil wells…

When news broke of the explosions in Kuwait’s oil wells, FERRAYÉ recalled his idea for a locking system but still needed to develop a method for extinguishing the fires. That same night, the solution came to him, and he was able to test it immediately, confirming its effectiveness.

All that remained was to build the prototypes, which was done by Dante FERRETTI, a long-time friend of the inventor. By February 28, 1991, the systems were ready as scale models.

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Before the surrender of Saddam Hussein’s army and his retreat from Kuwait on February 20, 1991, 1,164 oil wells out of 1,280 in production at the time were blown up to sabotage the country’s economy (see point 43).

Experts faced an unprecedented ecological and economic disaster. On February 20, 1991, American experts announced that 500 to 600 wells had been blown up and that it would take at least six years to address them. Due to the difficulties in treating wells under high pressure, experts later stated it would take 8 to 12 years to seal them using the conventional methods of the time: « KILL WELL » — Document 067 / 05.1991 Science et Vie — IFP directional drilling.

At the time, the process involved directional drilling to reach the oil reservoir located between 1,500 and 3,500 meters deep in Kuwait. After extinguishing and sealing the well, new drilling was required to resume production. Thus, sealing a well took over six months, and a new drill took three to four months.

No well could be returned to production until all fires in each oil field were extinguished. There were seven fields. It would then have taken years to redrill and restart production.

The estimated loss from reserves consumed over an average of eight years amounted to several trillion dollars. As for the loss of operation due to delayed production during the four-month intervention, it was estimated at $90 billion, which Kuwait billed to Iraq. Today, it is the Iraqi people who finance this corruption through the Oil-for-Food program. See point 42 of the memorandum.

Joseph FERRAYÉ’s methods revolutionized all conventional processes of the time by a factor of 15,000 to 20,000. The new process was named KILL SPOOL instead of KILL WELL, highlighting the difference between the two methods. As a bonus, this method allowed the reuse of the same wells, with the financial benefits described above.

On this basis, given the enormous economic gains offered by the new system, FERRAYÉ’s initial offer of USD 30 million, presented by his associates BASANO and TILLIÉ, was inflated by 2.6 times. See below at points 28–29, 47–53, Memorandum — point 43, and Appendix 13 — points 29.5 and 29.7.

This dual revolutionary system in 1991 first extinguished the fire and then blocked the flow.

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In early March 1991, Joseph FERRAYÉ contacted French ministries likely to be interested in extinguishing the wells: the Ministry of the Environment, Civil Protection, Defense (Pierre JOXE), and Foreign Trade (Martine AUBRY). They redirected him from one department to another, then from one ministry to another, without ever providing a clear point of contact.

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Also in early March, Roland VERVAT, a lawyer working with Me Guerry VAN DIJK, connected FERRAYÉ with Mario KONIALIDIS in Geneva (Tel. 022 346 18 93). After studying the proposal with a Kuwaiti prince, KONIALIDIS relayed that the Kuwaitis only wanted to seal their wells and were not interested in reusing them, as they intended to award that market to the Americans in recognition of their military involvement in liberating Kuwait.

KONIALIDIS added that Joseph FERRAYÉ would need to build prototypes at his own expense to demonstrate the systems’ effectiveness. This pushed FERRAYÉ to simplify the sealing system as much as possible, forming the basis of the patent filed on April 11, 1991.

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IFP Patent — French Petroleum Institute
On April 30, 1991, the IFP (Institut Français du Pétrole) filed patent No. 91 05440 for « controlling erupting oil wells, » which was an improvement on the conventional method. However, this system was only applicable to low-pressure wells! It merely facilitated work compared to previous identical systems but offered no time savings. Document 068 — 30.04.1991 IFP Patent No. 91 05440 for « controlling erupting oil wells. »

For high-pressure wells, according to a May 1991 article published by the IFP in the magazine Science et Vie (see Document 067), the only solution was directional drilling to treat and seal these wells.

To this day, the aforementioned patent irrefutably proves that no other method was in use at the time. Only FERRAYÉ’s systems, whose patents were filed on April 11 and 16 and May 2, 1991, were successfully used in Kuwait. The outdated IFP patent bears no comparison.

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02.05.1991 — The Kuwaitis steal the extinction system
On May 2, 1991, Ezzat JAAFAR and Victor GEBRANE ambushed Joseph FERRAYÉ in the former’s villa in La Colle-sur-Loup, defrauding him of the extinction system for which he had filed a patent that same day. FERRAYÉ was unaware they would use a patented system without his knowledge, especially since extinguishing the wells was useless without the ability to control the flow using the sealing system, which had not been disclosed. They deceived the inventor with promises of a formal contract within hours—a contract that never materialized.

This dual revolutionary system in 1991 first extinguished the fire and then blocked the flow.

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Immediately, they used the extinction system, which was easy to replicate. Its successful use lent credibility to the sealing system in their eyes, and they became interested in it. It was pointless to extinguish wells without being able to control the flow, which would have flooded the desert with a sea of oil, making it impossible to access the wells for treatment.

It should be noted that JAAFAR collaborated with FERRAYÉ’s agents, GEBRANE, REBOURS, and HOBEICH, who had tens of billions of dollars from the systems in accounts under their names, identified and frozen in April 1995. The existence of these accounts was proven in court during the hearings of notary Eric HAYE ST-HILAIRE and LEVAVASSEUR. Refer to Appendix 13 on embezzlement and corruption.
Document 069 — Hearing of 19.11.2002 Eric de la HAYE-ST-HILAIRE
Document 040 — Hearing of 24.11.1999 Daniel LEVAVASSEUR

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In his hearing on November 24, 1999 before Christine JUNOD, President of the Geneva College of Judges, Daniel LEVAVASSEUR stated that FERRAYÉ’s aforementioned agents, « REBOURS, HOBEICH, and GEBRANE, were directly linked to transfers of over USD 100 billion from a Kuwaiti bank to branches of BNP and BANQUE DU GOTHARD in Luxembourg. »

LEVAVASSEUR, a former DST agent (French intelligence), was found « suicided » on February 2, 2003, the day before his scheduled meeting with Joseph FERRAYÉ to hand over the entire file and the accounts discovered after the embezzlement. See Appendix 08 — Point 13.

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07.05.1991 to 09.05.1991 — Successful tests in Kuwait on May 7–9, 1991 of the extinction system stolen by Kuwaiti JAAFAR and Group B — REBOURS, HOBEICH, GEBRANE (point 6 above), who acted with the complicity of Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN — French Minister who simultaneously controlled the IFP (French Petroleum Institute), Elf, and the INPI (National Industrial Property Institute) — credibilized the sealing system, which was stolen in a second phase.

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13.05.1991 To conceal the French government’s involvement, Prime Minister Michel ROCARD signed Decree No. 91432 on May 13, 1991, transferring authority over the INPI from Industry Minister Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN to himself, eliminating all links. ROCARD and the government sought to erase all suspicion of STRAUSS-KAHN’s involvement in this plot. Document 070 — Copy of Decree No. 91432 of May 13, 1991.

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15.05.1991 Michel ROCARD served as Prime Minister from May 9, 1988, to May 15, 1991, just after signing this decree. François MITTERRAND replaced ROCARD with Edith CRESSON, attempting to turn the page on the patent fraud. CRESSON served as Prime Minister from May 15, 1991, to April 2, 1992, long enough to finalize the fraud and organize the French trade fair to sell FERRAYÉ’s systems to all oil-producing countries. The FRENCH TRADE WEEK, where the systems were exhibited, took place in Kuwait.

As seen in the photos below, the poster for the FRENCH TRADE WEEK is identical (without the exhibition date) to the photo held by BASANO on the first page of the official offer to present the systems to Kuwait in late July 1991… See also point 37 below.

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This further demonstrates that before late July 1991, oil companies had no means of controlling the wells. This explains the lakes of oil resulting from the use of conventional methods, even for low-pressure wells.

Since May 1991 (see point 5), oil experts had been extinguishing fires with the stolen extinction system but could not control the flow. This caused these oil lakes until the French government stole the sealing system (see points 13–15).

Before FERRAYÉ’s associates and the French government negotiated their contract in July 1991, no method existed to control these wells.

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In his testimony on August 11, 2004, Ahmad Naser AL SABAH, a Kuwaiti prince (cousin of the Emir) working at Bank AL WATANI in London at the time, attempted to mislead the court by claiming that another system had been used in Kuwait. He stated on page 3 that, besides RED ADAIR, who applied FERRAYÉ’s systems, a Hungarian company had intervened.

However, the Hungarian extinction system arrived in Kuwait on October 22, 1991, and the last well was extinguished on November 5, 1991. The Hungarian system was tested on a few wells to divert attention from the use of FERRAYÉ’s systems. It was an extinction-only system that did not block the flow. It consisted of a tank equipped with two MiG engines that blasted nitrogen at the fire, creating a nitrogen storm for about 20 minutes to extinguish it.

FERRAYÉ’s system, on the other hand, extinguished the fire in less than a minute…!

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22.05.1991 Joseph FERRAYÉ contacted Guy TURCO, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences in Nice, to present the case and seek the French government’s support. TURCO then asked him to contact Etienne TILLIÉ on his behalf.

That same day, TILLIÉ asked FERRAYÉ to first send a fax with all his contact details to Christian BASANO.

Joseph FERRAYÉ knew neither TILLIÉ nor BASANO. After sending the fax, these two individuals did not contact FERRAYÉ again until June 3, 1991, and in the meantime, they attempted to obtain the patents by presenting themselves to the INPI as members of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). They tasked Guy TURCO with making the request, but their efforts failed because the government had already taken control of the systems through Industry Minister Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN. Of course, Joseph FERRAYÉ only learned of these facts much later.

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03.06.1991 Christian BASANO called FERRAYÉ several times to persuade him to meet. Around 10:00 AM, an appointment was finally set, and it was there that the two fraudsters proposed that the inventor establish a company in which he would hold a majority stake. This was CONIRA (COmpagnie NIçoise de Recherche Avancée), which was never officially registered.

BASANO and TILLIÉ took copies of the filed patents.

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04.06.1991 Christian BASANO realized the need to involve members of the French government who had authority over Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN to counter the fraud already committed by STRAUSS-KAHN. BASANO then met Aurélien GARCIA in Paris, who was introduced to FERRAYÉ as a mission officer for Edith CRESSON, then Prime Minister.

During this meeting, BASANO confirmed through GARCIA that the government had undertaken the theft of the systems.

To salvage the situation, BASANO immediately proposed to GARCIA, on behalf of CRESSON, a commission of FF 500,000 for each well treated with FERRAYÉ’s systems.

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05.06.1991 In the morning, BASANO asked FERRAYÉ to go to TILLIÉ’s place. After giving him the address in La Colle-sur-Loup, FERRAYÉ was asked to explain the systems’ workings to TILLIÉ. The photo below shows FERRAYÉ explaining the systems to TILLIÉ at his desk from June 5 to July 27, 1991.

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In his book Jeu de Banques, Christian BASANO captioned this photo: « The inventors — June 14, 1991. » Yet it is known that TILLIÉ had no part in the discovery of the systems and was nothing more than a fraudster. This is further proof of BASANO’s complicity with TILLIÉ, as they repeatedly tried to claim they had failed to negotiate FERRAYÉ’s systems. See also the backdated agreement (Appendix 03) drafted by TILLIÉ.

Edith CRESSON confirmed her support in a letter dated June 5, 1991 addressed to Jean-Michel BAROCH, responsible for negotiations with Kuwait. She wrote: « I have reviewed the file submitted by S.B.A. of Châtellerault regarding the French team you formed around Mr. FLANDRE, well-known to our Civil Security, to participate in the extinction [and control] of oil wells in Kuwait.« 

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Here we see that Edith CRESSON, as planned by BASANO, directly bypassed her Industry Minister Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN, who had already stolen the two systems through the INPI during the secrecy period.

Through the aforementioned letter, CRESSON pretended to legitimize SOFREMI’s support. She wrote: « I have reviewed the file submitted by S.B.A. of Châtellerault regarding the French team you formed around Mr. FLANDRE, well-known to our Civil Security, to participate in the extinction [and control] of oil wells in Kuwait.« 

In reality, this government company was not involved in the agreements, as confirmed by the March 6, 2001, decision of the Paris High Court. Document 072 — 06.03.2001 Paris High Court Order (page 4).

CRESSON’s fraud was carried out through P.B.E Oil SA in Epinal, which had been liquidated and ceased all operations since April 7, 1989. For details on this point, refer to Appendix 03 on the backdated agreement.

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According to Mrs. Nagguy BRESSOT, wife of Jean BRESSOT, French ambassador to Kuwait at the time, following this dispute between Ministers STRAUSS-KAHN and CRESSON, François MITTERRAND, then President, reconciled the two groups to prevent leaks and ensure they maintained control over the theft of the two systems.

It should be remembered that SOFREMI was established in 1985 by Charles PASQUA, who is directly implicated in this conspiracy.

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16.06.1991 On June 16, 1991, an offer was sent by CONIRA, COmpagnie NIçoise de Recherche Avancée (founded but never registered), by FERRAYÉ and his associates, to Issam AL SAGER, President of Bank AL WATANI in Kuwait, the source of the funds (intermediary with Oil Minister Hmoud AL RAQBAH in Kuwait). The offer was for USD 30 million per well controlled with the systems.

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17.06.1991 BASANO and TILLIÉ confirmed in FERRAYÉ’s presence to Aurélien GARCIA at his private home in Dijon the allocation to Edith CRESSON of FF 1 million per well treated with the systems, at the request of Prime Minister CRESSON to secure her support against STRAUSS-KAHN. BASANO’s offer of June 4, 1991 (point 13) was not enough for her!

CRESSON’s corruption is confirmed by her own letter of June 5, 1991, where she states that both the extinction and sealing systems were taken under the control of the French government by SOFREMI, even though the extinction system had already been used in Kuwait since May 7–9, 1991.

The sealing system was only used in Kuwait after July 29, 1991, following negotiations with BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA (see points 27 and below).

If the French government had possessed both systems simultaneously, it would have offered them together to the Kuwaiti government, not in two phases as demonstrated above. This also proves the complicity of the two governments with FERRAYÉ’s agents and associates at the time to defraud him.

This explains why these systems were declared ‘strategic procedures’ by the French government, in total illegality! See Appendix 15 ‘Strategic Procedures and Defense Secrets.’

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01.07.1991 Following Edith CRESSON’s intervention with Kuwaiti authorities, FERRAYÉ’s associates received confirmation of the upcoming visit of Kuwaiti General Mohamed AL BADER.
Document 073 — Letter from TILLIÉ to AL SAGER — participants in the reception for the General.

This letter addressed to Issam AL SAGER, President of Bank AL WATANI in Kuwait, lists the individuals supposedly collaborating with CONIRA. It includes Jacques ATTALI, President of Air France (now President of PLANET FINANCE…). Of course, BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA are also listed.

Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN is not mentioned in this fax, proving he was excluded from the affair at this precise moment. This was something he could not accept, as he was Minister of Industry, controlled the IFP and ELF (which owns oil wells in Kuwait), and had already stolen both systems… (see points 8 ff.).

The directives prescribed by the CDB (Swiss Banking Due Diligence Convention) and the FINMA’s (formerly CFB — Federal Banking Commission) application of measures related to the true economic beneficiary (ADER) enabled the embezzlement and money laundering. See Appendix 05.

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05.07.1991 On July 5, 1991, FERRAYÉ and his niece Marie-Christine signed the incorporation documents of CONIRA alongside BASANO, TILLIÉ, COLONNA, FOLCO, and SAHAKIAN, with FERRAYÉ and his niece holding 50% of the shares.

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The same day, unbeknownst to FERRAYÉ, BASANO traveled to Gibraltar (claiming a trip to Portugal), where he opened an account and received the initial payment of USD 17.5 million from Kuwait, per CONIRA’s June 16, 1991 offer. Document 074 — 16.06.1991 Offer of USD 30 million per well.

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08.07.1991 On July 8, 1991, FERRAYÉ, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA officially received General Mohamed AL BADER at the Hôtel Negresco in Nice, in the presence of Aurélien GARCIA, representing the government, Edith CRESSON, Defense Minister Pierre JOXE, Civil Protection’s Philippe MARCHAND, and Foreign Trade’s Martine AUBRY.
See points 3–11 of Appendix 04 regarding CRESSON’s corruption.

GARCIA’s representation did not, at this point, include Industry Minister STRAUSS-KAHN, who had been bypassed by CRESSON, as seen above in points 15 ff.

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17.07.1991 Christian BASANO summoned Joseph FERRAYÉ to TILLIÉ’s home, where they were to receive General Mohamed AL BADER. The General arrived with Mustapha AL ADASANI, an engineer at Kuwait Oil Company.

AL ADASANI was hostile and contemptuous toward his hosts TILLIÉ, FERRAYÉ, and BASANO. He made it clear that he did not need them. At the time, BASANO and TILLIÉ pretended to be offended by AL ADASANI’s behavior, but this was all a staged act… Document 075 — Fax from BASANO to AL SAGER dated 17.07.1991 denouncing AL ADASANI’s behavior.

BASANO’s revelations on January 3, 2005, now show that the Kuwaiti engineer’s aggression was a ruse to prevent Joseph FERRAYÉ from going to Kuwait and thus exclude him from negotiations and the impending fraud, where they would inflate FERRAYÉ’s offer by 2.6 times. Document 076 — 03.01.2005 BASANO’s revelations.

In his revelations, BASANO stated: « Kuwait delegated General Mohamed AL BADER, whom TILLIÉ met daily before our departure for Kuwait on July 28, 1991 […] It was during these meetings that TILLIÉ met Mustapha AL ADASANI, Victor GEBRANE, Fouad HOBEICH, and Serge REBOURS […] with whom TILLIÉ and General AL BADER conspired […] to mastermind the theft of FERRAYÉ’s two inventions.

It was also TILLIÉ who persuaded Kuwait to execute his diabolical plan, agreed in his preliminary meetings with AL ADASANI and his friends, to increase the royalties (2.6 times FERRAYÉ’s initial offer — point 47 ff. below) for the extinctions using FERRAYÉ’s systems, since all of Kuwait’s losses due to the war were to be paid by Iraq. » (Document 076 / middle of page 2 and start of page 3).

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26.07.1991 The letter of July 26, 1991, from STRAUSS-KAHN (Document 077) to Kuwaiti Oil Minister Hmoud Abdallah AL RAQBAH irrefutably proves STRAUSS-KAHN’s return to the conspiracy after President MITTERRAND’s intervention to reconcile his ministers, as revealed by Mrs. Nagguy BRESSOT, wife of Ambassador Jean BRESSOT, and explained in point 16. This also confirms the alliance of the two groups of fraudsters under MITTERRAND.

This letter also confirms STRAUSS-KAHN’s support for BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA. BASANO refers to this letter on page 3 of his January 3, 2005 revelations regarding COLONNA’s trip to Paris 24 hours before their departure for Kuwait. Without explicitly stating it, BASANO reveals that it was during this trip that STRAUSS-KAHN handed the aforementioned letter to COLONNA, who delivered it to Ambassador Jean BRESSOT upon their arrival in Kuwait.

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The July 26, 1991 letter from STRAUSS-KAHN was also a necessary recommendation with which FERRAYÉ’s associates presented themselves to Minister AL RAQBAH to demonstrate STRAUSS-KAHN’s return to the conspiracy, as he had been its initiator. It was necessary to justify to Kuwait the alliance of the two groups of fraudsters, as the « princes » no longer understood who their interlocutors were…

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As seen above, the successful tests of the extinction system in Kuwait on May 7–9, 1991, lent credibility to the sealing system. Seeing that the extinction system worked, the Kuwaitis assumed the same would apply to the sealing system. Following these tests, the sealing system was stolen. See the May 13, 1991 decree at point 09 above.

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28.07.1991
BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA, who had received their visas, traveled to Kuwait without FERRAYÉ. They initially claimed they had scheduled a meeting for him at FRAMATOME to build the system prototypes. In reality, FERRAYÉ was excluded to allow them to proceed with the negotiations described in point 24, conducted against Joseph FERRAYÉ’s interests.

Later, the fraudsters even argued that tickets to Kuwait were too expensive and that it would be wise to save money. Yet they traveled in first class on Lufthansa. Upon their return, TILLIÉ claimed that Kuwait had not issued a visa for FERRAYÉ because he was Lebanese, and the Kuwaitis considered Lebanese people terrorists… This conversation was recorded.

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Contrary to the above and according to the revelations of Prosecutor Bernard BERTOSSA to André STREBEL explained at point 53, Joseph FERRAYÉ learned from STREBEL on October 17, 2003, that he had been excluded from negotiations and the trip because the coalition governments had decided to inflate the cost of extinctions by 2.6 times.

According to BASANO’s January 3, 2005 revelations, this 2.6-fold increase, planned as seen in point 23 above, was applied by the coalition governments, who were lured and deceived by TILLIÉ.

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Notary Pierre MOTTU confirmed his corruption and that of notary ST-HILAIRE and lawyers Mark BRUPPACHER, LE MAZOU, GIRARD, later joined by WARLUZEL and then BONNANT (See Appendix 02). MOTTU knew of the 2.6-fold fraud, as the accounts were sequestered under his supervision, as declared by his associate notary ST-HILAIRE. Yet in his testimony on February 6, 1996, he stated that Kuwait had paid USD 34 billion to the users. He thus completely ignored the 1.6-fold difference, corresponding to USD 55.8 billion officially defrauded from the Iraqi people. See Document 069 — ST-HILAIRE’s testimony 19.11.2002.

Simultaneously, MOTTU also omitted, during the same testimony, the amounts from the sale of the systems to all other oil-producing countries. The fraud thus also extends to the tax revenues owed to the countries that should have received these funds, namely Switzerland and France.

Notary Pierre MOTTU’s role was not limited to his involvement in the embezzlement and laundering of the aforementioned USD 100 billion but also included the royalties from the sale of the systems as a strategic procedure to all other oil-producing countries, causing damages to Joseph FERRAYÉ and fiscal losses of several hundred billion dollars, as explained in points 22 and 23 of Appendix 13.

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It was during this trip to Kuwait that FERRAYÉ’s associates and agents concluded the backdated agreement per Appendix 03, which includes the name of Mustapha AL ADASANI, directly linked to FERRAYÉ’s agents, REBOURS, HOBEICH, and GEBRANE. This same agreement lists the names of BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA, FERRAYÉ’s associates. This further proves the alliance of the two groups to control the theft of the two systems. See also points 15, 23 ff. above and Appendix 03.

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02.08.1991 — Impact of the ROCARD Decree (Document 070)
BASANO informed FERRAYÉ from Kuwait (recorded conversation) that Jean-Claude BOURDON, President of the French Petroleum Institute, was also in Kuwait presenting FERRAYÉ’s systems. Then, BASANO asked FERRAYÉ to sign over his rights to the systems to CONIRA, the Compagnie Niçoise de Recherche Avancée, to assert FERRAYÉ’s priority rights. This was a diabolical plan—linked to the backdated agreement per Appendix 03—orchestrated by TILLIÉ and COLONNA under the auspices of the DGSE (French intelligence)

In his statements from January 3, 2005 (Document 076), BASANO declared regarding the DGSE: « TILLIÉ was in contact with the office of Prime Minister Edith CRESSON, and COLONNA was a liaison for the DGSE; that’s why he (COLONNA) went with us to KUWAIT. It’s also the reason why Claude MARTI-VASKOU, the Commercial Attaché at the embassy, refused to carry out the order to eliminate us… see reports from Italian secret services: You can’t kill people whose names you are going to use in a contract […] ».

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August 4, 1991 – BASANO told FERRAYÉ from KUWAIT that they were going to appoint COLONNA as president of CONIRA because they had to sign the agreements in KUWAIT. FERRAYÉ, who held 50% of the company’s shares, had no say in the matter.

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August 5, 1991 – The letter from AL BADER Trading Co dated August 5, 1991 (Document 078) to the Kuwaiti Oil Minister Hmoud AL RAQBAH also confirms that the offer was officially presented by CONIRA, i.e., by FERRAYÉ’s associates, on Saturday, August 3, 1991, following successful testing of the blockage system.

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This letter clearly shows that CONIRA was a partner in the backdated agreement listing shareholders BASANO, TILLIÉ, COLONNA, ARAMCO, and AL ADASANI acting on behalf of FERRAYÉ’s representatives: REBOURS, HOBEICH, and GEBRANE. This contradicts what FERRAYÉ’s associates later claimed, as shown below, and as they attempted to conceal with the backdated agreement (Appendix 03).

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August 10, 1991 – From Kuwait, BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA sent a letter to Edith CRESSON. It was just another scheme, as noted in Appendix 03, point 11.

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August 13, 1991 – Upon returning from KUWAIT, BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA told FERRAYÉ that Oil Minister Hmoud AL RAQBAH would send them the contract within 15 days, then they vanished from the Alpes-Maritimes. From September to November 1991, to destabilize Joseph FERRAYÉ and buy time, they manipulated the inventor with contradictory statements and issued the following false declarations:

• Fortunately, we have friends (namely General Mohamed AL BADER and his brothers Youssef and Hamad, and Issam AL SAGER) in KUWAIT who are monitoring the extinctions. These friends will send us proof of the system’s use.
• We lost a battle, but not the war (October 1991).
• We lost the war and must accept defeat (November 1991).
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Sale of Patents

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Following the successful use of the systems in KUWAIT, and in anticipation of the promotional fallout during the FRENCH TRADE WEEK in KUWAIT (November 23–29, 1991), Jean BRESSOT was reassigned as French Ambassador to Saudi Arabia to maintain control over the fraudulent sale of the systems by ARAMCO, which was set to involve thousands of billions of dollars…

According to BASANO, the systems were also presented and sold at the Earth Summit (UNCED) held from June 3 to 14, 1992, in Rio de Janeiro. Swiss Federal Counselor Flavio COTTI was present in Rio at the time of the system sales…

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Since August 15, 1991, contact with FERRAYÉ’s three associates became impossible.
After disappearing for a month and returning from Corsica (a holiday location for PASQUA, TARALLO, GUELFI, ROCCA SERRA, etc.), where they stayed at COLONNA’s place, they blocked all attempts at contact.

According to Daniel LEVAVASSEUR, who had located all the accounts and had them seized, BASANO’s secretaries, Arlette FOLCO (62 Chemin de Val Fleuri, Cagnes-sur-Mer) and Marie-Rose SAHAKIAN (2 Rue Sévan, Nice), each had accounts with more than USD 100 million in their names.

They insulted Joseph FERRAYÉ without restraint to intimidate him, keep him away, and discourage him from going to BASANO’s office to obtain the information he was entitled to after the trip to KUWAIT.
Document 079, the testimony of TILLIÉ on November 28, 1996, page 6 (Judicial file 40220), bears witness to this.

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August 16, 1991 – Joseph FERRAYÉ was informed by Eric BARBAROUX, a civil servant at DATAR, that the conspirators had obtained funding for the first tests of his systems via DATAR – Ministry of the Interior. Following the fraud, the French state was then bypassed when it came to benefiting from the return on its investment… Although it was French taxpayers who financed the project, only the fraudsters reaped the colossal royalties—amounting to thousands of billions of dollars.

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August 19, 1991 – Mahmoud AL RAHMANI, President of Kuwait Petroleum Corp., aware of the 2.6x overbilling and complicit in the scheme, sent a letter to François COLONNA to attempt to exonerate FERRAYÉ’s associates—BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA—from the consequences of the plot.
This letter proves the active complicity of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. in this organized crime.
Document 080 – Letter from KUWAIT PETROLEUM Corp., dated August 19, 1991.

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September 1991 – FERRAYÉ mandated Me Guerry VAN DIJK, an international lawyer in Nice, who got in contact with the firm AL SALEH, GRAHAM & JAMES in Kuwait.

The Kuwaiti law firm confirmed it could halt the extinguishing operations until a solution could be found.
One week later, VAN DIJK had been corrupted. His capital is now used to finance villas in the Bahamas…

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November 12, 1991 – Joseph FERRAYÉ attempted to obtain a report from his associates BASANO, COLONNA, and TILLIÉ regarding their mission in KUWAIT from July 28 to August 13, 1991.
The goal was to understand whom they had contacted and why the expected outcome had not been achieved. FERRAYÉ suspected deception but lacked evidence to act.

The three associates, feeling cornered, retaliated with a formal notice dated November 12, 1991, in which they demanded over 650,000 francs in fees and expenses for their work in KUWAIT…
They clumsily attempted to make it seem as though their efforts had failed and hid all completed transactions and the misappropriation of royalties from their main partner.
(See Appendix 03 – transactions related to the backdated agreement and Appendix 01 regarding the main actors in the fraud.)

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Still in November 1991, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation sent a list to Joseph FERRAYÉ’s lawyer, Guerry VAN DIJK, listing companies and the number of wells each treated.
This list ignored the 320 wells handled by HALLIBURTON, as declared on its own website. Let’s recall that HALLIBURTON’s president was none other than Richard Bruce a.k.a. Dick CHENEY, vice-president to George W. BUSH, and previously Secretary of Defense under President Bush Sr.

• Document 081 – March 7, 1997: KUWAIT Petroleum Corp confirms 695 wells (page 1)
• Document 082 – Excerpt from HALLIBURTON’s website

In contrast to this manipulated list—intended to divert royalties to U.S. government members—the Kuwait Center for Research and Studies stated in an official book titled “The Destruction of Kuwait’s Oil Wells” that 1,164 wells were blown up, representing 91.8% of the 1,268 wells in production at that time in Kuwait.

• Document 083 – March 7, 1997: Translation of the Kuwait Research Center’s data (page 2ff)

Adding HALLIBURTON’s 320 wells to the 695 listed ones gives 1,015 wells out of the 1,164 blown up.
The missing 149 wells were likely attributed to HORWELL France, which fraudulently declared only 8, while the remaining 141 wells likely served to corrupt French government members…

Let us recall that the FERRAYÉ (CONIRA) offer to extinguish and seal wells was USD 30 million per unit, inflated by a factor of 2.6, making the actual cost per well paid by Kuwait USD 78 million.
So for 1,164 wells:
USD 90,792,000,000 (over 90 billion dollars).
As for the sale of the patents to all oil producers—120,000 wells were active worldwide at the time—they were negotiated at USD 30 million each (FERRAYÉ’s offer).

The plot’s masterminds wanted to make it appear as if France was uninvolved in the misappropriation of the systems. The Ministry of Industry, led by Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN, even issued a false statement in its May 21, 1992 letter to FERRAYÉ, signed by H. LOISELEUR des LONGCHAMPS:

“As you know, the Kuwaiti government gave only a minor role to French companies in the extinguishing of burning wells in the Emirate. In particular, it did not sign any contracts with the various independent companies that offered their services. The authorities in the Emirate appear to have used two selection criteria: the size of the company and the classical nature of their extinguishing methods.”
— This is a lie!
– Document 084 – May 21, 1992, Ministry of Industry – “Classical systems”

Let’s remember that Evelyne DUVAL, secretary to STRAUSS-KAHN, was accused of working for Alfred SIRVEN while receiving a salary from the Ministry of Industry.
In reality, Evelyne DUVAL was employed by SIRVEN to manage accounting for STRAUSS-KAHN’s shares from this plot!
Thus, the French taxpayer was funding the accounting of STRAUSS-KAHN’s stolen gains!

The above evidence demonstrates the blatant falsehoods stated by the Ministry of Industry and its close collaborators.
Let us note, by the way, that lies are recurrent in French political life, if not to call it a “political ideology”… See Appendix 11.

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The proof contradicting the “use of classical extinguishing methods” is provided in point 2 of this report.

45

I repeat: in the same KUWAIT PETROLEUM Corp. list, it is stated that France participated in extinguishing only 8 wells, via HORWELL, which even claimed losses from its involvement in KUWAIT. This was a manipulation meant to distract FERRAYÉ from his research. That’s why BASANO – TILLIÉ – COLONNA kept referring the inventor specifically to that company!

See also Appendix 3, point 2, regarding the backdated agreement, to understand that HORWELL’s reported losses were fictitious, and that the true beneficiaries of the well treatments in KUWAIT were the founding companies of HORWELL: IFP, ELF, and FORASOL, who acted with the plot’s masterminds.

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December 1991
Issam AL SAGER, President of AL WATANI Bank in Kuwait City, told FERRAYÉ that it was BASANO – TILLIÉ – COLONNA who had obtained the agreements in Kuwait, adding that they had the full support of the government. The phone conversation was recorded.

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The fire suppression and sealing systems were illegally declared « Strategic Processes » by all coalition countries. See Appendix 15 « Strategic Processes and State Secret ».

The revenue from these systems, aside from the billions shared between FERRAYÉ’s associates and representatives, and all the plot masterminds, represented war loot. The cost of suppression was multiplied by 2.6, despite this loot falling under FERRAYÉ’s rights. Out of fear of having to return everything and being exposed as petty fraudsters, the plot masterminds preferred to corrupt FERRAYÉ’s 54 successive lawyers with tens of billions of dollars, rather than simply honor their agreements signed for the suppression and sealing of the wells in KUWAIT… (Appendix 13). And this does not even include the revenue from selling the systems.

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From that point on, Joseph FERRAYÉ could only attempt to assert his rights through the justice system, unaware that the judiciary would also be corrupted by the conspirators and that all proceedings would be tainted.

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In December 1991, lawyer Me MANCILLA filed a complaint in Nice against the inventor’s associates. MANCILLA later abandoned the case, without collecting fees.

Two days after the complaint was filed, FERRAYÉ was contacted by Serge REBOURS, who came to his home asking to see the case file to « help » him.

REBOURS offered to take FERRAYÉ to a police officer friend of his, Michel GARNIER, in Nice. GARNIER requested the complaint be transferred to Grasse, to influence judges who were his friends.

It was due to GARNIER and REBOURS’ intervention that the first complaint, filed on March 4, 1992, against BASANO, TILLIÉ, and COLONNA, was dismissed on April 6, 1992, by the prosecutor in Grasse (case No. 92/5001 – BO/PF/TM).

In that procedure, Daniel LEVAVASSEUR received formal proof that case No. 92/5001 had been dismissed under the justification of « State Secret »

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May 1992, FERRAYÉ met Me René BLANCHOT from Marseille and his nephew Olivier ARNAUBEC, a lawyer in Nice, who filed a new complaint in Nice. He also notified the press, resulting in several articles. This new complaint was dismissed by Judge Christine LORENZINI with the note « refusal to investigate » !

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December 1992, BLANCHOT and ARNAUBEC filed another new complaint, again in NICE.

This time, Judge Joël ESPEL was assigned to the investigation. In this procedure, unlike the previous ones, FERRAYÉ’s lawyer ARNAUBEC, who accompanied the plaintiff to hearings, clearly acted against his client’s interests.

Initially, it was even the judge who insisted that FERRAYÉ present petroleum engineer Géraud VITRAC to support his case. This move irritated the lawyer.

The next day, when VITRAC and FERRAYÉ arrived at the courthouse with ARNAUBEC, the latter insisted on seeing the judge privately and left the plaintiff and witness waiting outside.

When they were finally let in, Judge Joël ESPEL refused to receive VITRAC, despite having requested his testimony. BLANCHOT and ARNAUBEC had already bribed him ! The judge dismissed the complaint as unfounded...

On September 8, 1993, petroleum engineer Géraud VITRAC recorded TILLIÉ’s confession about the fraud and the transfer of USD 10 billion in his name to South America. He also referred to « the political parties being corrupted in a magnificent way », and threatened that all this would be proven. Excerpt of the recording: Appendix 17.

After handing the tape to René BLANCHOT, who had insisted on obtaining a copy mentioning the $10 billion, BLANCHOT assured that this evidence trapped the fraudsters.

In reality, BLANCHOT and ARNAUBEC only wanted the recording to negotiate an even greater betrayal of their client, based on their confirmation of the billions involved.

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November 1993, during an appeal to the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence, ARNAUBEC and BLANCHOT told FERRAYÉ that BLANCHOT would present TILLIÉ’s confession tape in court.

At the hearing, FERRAYÉ waited for his lawyers, who never appeared… The Aix-en-Provence Bar appointed a court-appointed lawyer who knew nothing of the case but had the pleading prepared by ARNAUBEC, handed over by FERRAYÉ. He hadn’t realized that his lawyers had given him the file in advance because they had planned to abandon him!

After the hearing, FERRAYÉ was never able to reach his lawyers again. Despite dozens of calls, BLANCHOT’s secretary kept saying he wasn’t there, though he was in his office. Eventually, the secretary offered to divert the call to her private line at a specific time.

When FERRAYÉ finally reached BLANCHOT, he recognized his voice, but BLANCHOT was so uncomfortable he pretended to be a France TELECOM operator… Luckily for him, embarrassment doesn’t kill!

That complaint, too, was dismissed by the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal.

Since 2003, José BERTOZZI, lawyer for GRBRANE, HOBEICH, and REBOURS, works in the same office as Olivier ARNAUBEC in Place du Palais 1, Nice… Proof that fraud forges lasting bonds.

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Following Joseph FERRAYÉ’s Swiss complaint on January 29, 1996, the UNCC (United Nations Compensation Commission) reduced the official costs of suppression and sealing to USD 610 million, corresponding to the amounts paid to service companies (HALLIBURTON, Red ADAIR, WILD WELL CONTROL, SAFETY BOSS, BOOTS & COOTS, etc.) and shifted the difference to fictitious claims, still charged to Iraq as per the following detail:

1,164 wells * USD 30 million = USD 34.92 billion * 2.6 = USD 90.792 billion.

This overbilling was revealed by Daniel LEVAVASSEUR, former member of the DST (French Secret Service), who identified major account balances, according to his official statement on November 24, 1999, to Christine JUNOD, President of the College of Judges in Geneva. These included approximately USD 91 billion in compensation for extinguishing and sealing wells in KUWAIT, and USD 3,600 billion from patent sales. The 2.6 multiplier was disclosed by André STREBEL, based on information from Geneva’s Attorney General Bernard BERTOSSA, who later became Vice-President of the Federal Criminal Court to better control complaint dismissals in Switzerland at the federal level.

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It should be noted that Daniel LEVAVASSEUR was found murdered on February 2, 2003, the day before he was to meet with FERRAYÉ to hand over the entire file, including the aforementioned banking evidence.

55

On August 23, 2002, Daniel LEVAVASSEUR had already planned to give FERRAYÉ banking documents regarding USD 24 billion from his systems. But upon learning that FERRAYÉ had a hearing with Judge Christine JUNOD three days later, he withheld the documents for safety reasons, telling him: « Trust me, it’s better to remind JUNOD that I already gave her those banking documents in November 1999 ».

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Joseph FERRAYÉ stated during his hearing with Judge JUNOD — accompanied by his then-lawyer Me André CLERC — that LEVAVASSEUR had previously submitted the documents. The judge JUNOD didn’t include this in the minutes, but verbally confirmed to FERRAYÉ and his lawyer that she had, indeed, received the USD 24 billion in banking documents from LEVAVASSEUR during the 1999 hearing

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At that time, Judge JUNOD was ready to approve an advance payment of CHF 250,000 to Geneva Hospital to save FERRAYÉ’s brother, who needed urgent surgery by Professor Philippe MORREL.

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Lawyer André CLERC understood that such an agreement implied recognition of Joseph FERRAYÉ’s rights. He then got up to “turn on the light” in a bright room in August and said to the judge: « Let’s shed a little light ».

Immediately, Judge JUNOD realized her blunder, and the topic was dropped. However, a written confirmation from André CLERC dated March 4, 2004, affirms what had occurred.

• Document 059 – March 4, 2004: CLERC – JUNOD confirmation of documents in possession (USD 24 billion)
• Document 060 – August 6, 2004: Same confirmation

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Joseph FERRAYÉ’s brother died 21 days later, on September 17, 2002, because the necessary care could not be provided due to the lack of advance payment. Professor MORREL had confirmed that he could have saved him through surgery. Geneva Hospital refused the operation unless it was prepaid. This amounts to obvious failure to assist a person in danger, with the ensuing civil liability, considering the circumstances that led to the death.

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The minutes of LEVAVASSEUR’s hearing, which should have noted his submission of these documents to Judge Christine JUNOD, were only obtained in August 2004. There is no mention of the accounts being submitted. This proves Judge Christine JUNOD’s complicity.

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Finally, the following evidence undeniably demonstrates the fraudulent application of FERRAYÉ’s systems in 1991 in KUWAIT:

The article « How well control techniques were refined in KUWAIT » from World Oil magazine, May 1992, written by Larry FLAK, an engineer who coordinated the well fire suppression efforts from March 19 to November 15, 1991:

• Document 085 – FLAK Larry – Description of Kill Spool techniques

The article describes the technical characteristics of the new systems but attributes them to ABB VETCO GRAY, whose CEO was Percy BARNEVIC, a member of the BILDERBERG Group (globalist elite network involving BUSH and other Deep State actors, including Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN, Patrick DEVEDJIAN (oil), Loïc Le FLOC PRIGENT ELF, Philippe JAFFRÉ ELF, Lionel JOSPIN—who refunded CHF 16 billion to Kuwait in 2000—Bernard KOUCHNER, Jacques TOUBON, etc.).

Literal translation of the article’s opening:

« ABB VETCO GRAY, which ran Kuwait Oil Company’s machine shop in Ahmadi, was able to execute geometric processes ». From that point, FLAK begins to describe technical features belonging to FERRAYÉ’s patented systems.

This note is in direct contradiction with the Ministry of the Interior’s statements and has no relation to the patent filed with the INPI on April 30, 1991.

• Document 085 – Flak Larry – Kill spool description translation
• Document 068 – April 30, 1991: IFP patent based on former system

This is a blatant false statement by the Ministry of the Interior to divert attention from the truth. See also point 5 above.

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A fraud compensation invoice was sent on August 30, 2017, to the Swiss Confederation in the amount of CHF 54,379.071 billion. This invoice covers the civil liability to be jointly borne by the States of Switzerland, France, the USA (non-exhaustive list), the perpetrators of the crime, and their accomplices (bankers, ministers, politicians, business leaders, etc. – both individuals and legal entities) who defrauded and laundered the approximately USD 3,600 billion from the royalties of the extinguishing and sealing patents filed by Joseph FERRAYÉ.

As of June 30, 2025, the updated civil liability amounts to CHF 83,471,228,802,032.-