Défense conseil international

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Défense conseil international is the French Ministry for Defense's operator for exporting French military abroad to the for armies flagged as "friendly" is the DCI group. It comes as a merger of 4 companies of which COFRAS is the older (established in 1972), NAFVCO (1980 now Naval Group), AIRCO (1984), DESCO (1990) each of which were for each of the branches of French army. (they pertain respectively Land, Navy, Air and Special forces domains of armament)

Bearing the "Formation armées françaises" label, DCI exports military advising, training, technical assistance services and weaponry.

The DCI group is headquartered in Paris, with several other sites within France. It also has locations abroad, notably in the Middle East in Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and in Southeast Asia in Malaysia, Singapore and, recently, India.^[1] DCI is continuing its international expansion, particularly in Asia and Latin America.

With 1079 employees, the DCI group had turnover of over €227.6 M in 2016.^[2][3][4][5]

DCI operates closely with the French Armed Forces, and as the French state is the main investor the company is under the command of the French State.

Exports[]

Marine exports[]

Taiwan Frigates' affair[]

Bravo A[]

Under the name "bravo A" a first agreement was put in place. It was decided to sell the weapons using another French company called Thomson-CSF (renamed in 2000 "Thales")

The company answered a bid for new navy frigates, at the end La Fayette-class frigates were sold for a price of 2.21 billions in 1991, a price purported to've been overstretched due to bribes amounting a third of the price.^[6]

An admiral called , that had written negative comments about the suitability and efficiency of the proposed frigates, was later murdered as he was thought to be about to whistle-blow the 500 millions of euros given in retro commissions. One of his nephews was also murdered later.^[6]

A year later an ex-Thomson employee named Jacques Morrison was killed by defenestration from a high building. He had told some friends that he witnessed the talks which made him fear for his life.

In 1993 a certain Andrew Wang flies abroad after another captain called Kuo Li-heng was arrested.

Taiwanese judicial aftermath[]

One of the corrupted officers of Taiwanese navy was dozen of year later condemned a Navy captain called Kuo Li-heng to 15 years of prison for taking kickbacks, this along with an order of returning 340 millions of kickbacks.^{[citation needed]}

Andrew Wang which in was investigated 7 years after he left Taiwan in 2000 after Kuo- Li-heng's investigation,^[7] he was not declared guilty, in 2015 he died and so charges against him were dropped.^[8]

Swiss returned money[]

On 2007 Switzerland returned 34 millions.^[9]

On 2021 again Switzerland agreed to give back 226 millions to Taiwan.^[10]

On the other hand Swiss banks are estimated to have obtained at least the triple in the affair; in the affair.^[11]

Taiwan supports most of the overpaid costs.

France's condemnation[]

France state along with Thomson in May 2010 were condemned by two French judges to pay 591 millions plus interest and judicial fees of investigations yet the only thing to be judged were kickbacks.^[12]

A Lafayette French made frigate.

Paid editing[]

In 2020, DCI was confirmed (among many other unrelated companies) to have paid public relations agencies (i.e e-reputation) for favorable coverage in Wikipedia projects.^[13]

DCI worldwide[]

In 2016, the company had about 1079 employees13.^[14]

Acquisitions[]

In 2014, DCI bought Vigie aviation, a company specialized in aerial maritime surveillance^[15]

Shareholders[]

Since 1 January 2016, DCI's share capital was as follows:

• French State: 49.99%
• SOFEMA: 30%
• Eurotradia International: 10%
• Defense Conseil International: 10%
• Miscellaneous: 0.1%

Chief executive officer[]

• Jean-Michel Palagos, Chairman and CEO ^[16]

See also[]

• French armed forces
• Dassault A french military aviation manufacturer.

References[]