Everyone knows now that there is nothing illegal in paying in cash. It is also not illegal to give someone cash in brown envelopes, and it is not illegal to do so in high-end hotels where everything can be kept very quiet. It is not illegal. Nor is it illegal to give contracts or mandates that are not clear. The very least we can say is that the mandate is not clear, but we will come back to this. I do not have clarity about the amount of money: there have been three versions recently.
It is not illegal, but when we look at the accumulation of all these facts, when we add them up, we may suspect that you did commit some illegal acts in a way that is not very... I would not want to use a term that is not politically correct. Everything that happened leads me to say that this looks like illegal transactions.
I would like to show you the document that you were referring to earlier. This is the mandate that Fred Doucet wanted to negotiate with you. He says he negotiated on February 4, 2000. You say that is impossible, because the firms whose names appear on the document ceased to exist after 1995. Do you acknowledge nonetheless that this is your writing and that these were the names of the two companies? It is difficult to read. Do you acknowledge that this is your handwriting?