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The foundation of Unaoil in 1990 is interesting. It has always been suspect that the German government under Helmut Kohl gifted the former East German companies Leuna and Minol to the French government, i.e. the French government owned elf Aquitaine (now TOTAL).
Kohl said that it was a sale, but he let the contracts go missing and shredded Chancellery documents when moving from Bonn to Berlin(Focus magazine). Had it been a sale, the price would have become known and the owners of the allotments would have been paid. Later on, a prosecutor in Geneva (Bertossa) discovered 300 million Deutschmarks in secret accounts of Kohl's CDU party - Bertossa got transferred.
The value of the thousands of Minol allotments that the French government 'pocketed' were about 3 to 4 billion Deutschmarks in 1994 so the money found in Geneva (further info not known) was about the traditional 10 %. Kohl was never prosecuted for his fraud in 1991 plus, and why the kickback was deposited in French speaking Geneva is also curious. In Paris there were some prosecutions for the elf Aquitaine fraud (Judge Eva Joly), but in Germany not. Kohl's accomplice Holger-Ludwig Pfahls was only prosecuted for tax evasion, not aiding Kohl's fraud. He lived in France illegally for about 5 years. When he was in court in Augsburg he wanted to justify his actions by spilling the beans of corruption under Kohl, but as soon as Kohl was in court in Augsburg as a witness, he stated that there was no corruption under Kohl in Germany. The Leuna/Minol/elf Aquitaine fraud between Bonn, Paris, and Geneva has all the hallmarks of a corrupt network, coinciding with the beginning of Unaoil. (The interest of this writer derives from the fact that the giving away of Minol by Kohl included a valuable allotment in Berlin whose owners were not compensated, i.e. Prenzlauer Promenade 191, Berlin-Pankow). 58.174.193.2 (talk) 03:52, 1 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
