A former France Combat pilot is being investigated for intelligence suspicions after allegedly filtering confidential information to China, according to the French newspaper ‘Le Canard Enchâiné’, which has had access to nearby sources of the case.
The Ministry of the Armed Forces have been responsible for the complaint before justice, as established in article 40 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office reported that he had obtained the report on the situation on February 19, in reference “about one of its former employees, suspected of intelligence with a foreign power, dissemination of national defense secrets, violation of instructions, accumulation of activities, money laundering and tax fraud.”
‘Le Canard Enchâiné’ said it is an expilot of combat that He traveled to China at the end of 2018 and August 2019, Thanks to the payment of a company in South Africa. Thus, according to the defendant’s version, the reason for the trip was purely labor. “I was content to direct two seminars of three days each (…). My trip in 2019 was not very good, I never set foot in China after that,” said the defendant (who prefers to maintain his anonymity) to the French newspaper.
However, another source close to the investigation clarified that their trips were made just when it was still within the army, something that he also did without the necessary authorization of his superiors, contrary to what They demand the armed forces.
