Mrs. Nakatani's arms scandal

1989, the French arms giant Thomson plans to sell six Lafayette-class frigates to Taiwan Province province, with an agreed amount of146 billion francs. This kind of interference in China's internal affairs and cross-strait poisoning has been severely criticized by the China government. The French government boycotted the sale of these warships to Taiwan Province on 1989 after China's protest. In order to say that the French government insists on arms sales to Taiwan, Thomson Group, the protagonist of French arms sales to Taiwan, formulated a strategy of establishing a lobbying group and recruiting "lobbyists" on the basis of commission in July 1990, and decided that Elf-aquitaine Kerosene Company Group, a related household, would act as an intermediary and hire Mrs. Nakatani to mediate, so as to clear the way for arms sales to Taiwan. The French government finally changed its attitude and turned to support this business. Thomson Group signed a ship purchase and sale agreement 199 1 with Taiwan Province Province in August. Since then, after paying a huge commission, Thomson Group found that the middleman of Elf Group did not play much role in reality, and its operation was not exemplary. So, on February 26th, 1997, he filed a complaint with the court on the charge of "fraud". The French Ministry of Justice found in New Law Watch that Taiwan Province paid a high amount of backstage work to some people in France, which exposed the scandal involving many people.

199 1 year, the French sold six frigates to Taiwan Province. The original agreed total price was 1 1 billion francs, but the final transaction price was as high as10.6 billion francs (about 2.7 billion US dollars). This price is more than three times that of the same number of lafayette frigates purchased by Singapore.

Ma Ying himself was also sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment and suspended for two years by the French judiciary on 200 1 1.