{"id":7096,"date":"2012-01-17T08:48:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T06:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/ex-areva-boss-speaks-out-in-mining-deal-controversy\/"},"modified":"2012-01-17T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T06:48:51","slug":"ex-areva-boss-speaks-out-in-mining-deal-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ex-areva-boss-speaks-out-in-mining-deal-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Areva boss speaks out in mining deal controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Marie Maitre<\/span><\/p>\n

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PARIS<\/span> Jan 16 (Reuters) – Former Areva boss
\nAnne Lauvergeon hit back on Monday over a reported spying case
\nand fraud allegations that cast doubt over the $2.5 billion
\npurchase of miner UraMin made on her watch in 2007.<\/p>\n

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The conditions under which the Canada-listed miner was
\nacquired, as the nuclear industry was undergoing a global
\nrenaissance, have been questioned since Areva’s new management
\nwrote down nearly the entire value of UraMin in December.<\/p>\n

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Three separate official investigations are underway – by
\nnuclear reactor maker Areva, the French energy ministry and
\nparliament – to examine the circumstances of the purchase and
\ndetermine what went wrong. But there is no judicial
\ninvestigation. ID:nL6E8CD2R5]<\/p>\n

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Lauvergeon, who was abruptly replaced at the helm of Areva
\nlast June, on Monday defended her decision to purchase UraMin,
\nsaying the deal was needed to diversify the company’s
\ngeographical footprint and was made at a fair price.<\/p>\n

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Lauvergeon, who had kept a low media profile since June,
\nfiled a legal suit last month over a confidential intelligence
\nreport into whether her husband, a business consultant,
\nillegally benefited from the UraMin deal.<\/p>\n

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“I have been attacked, slandered, spied on, in an unfair
\nway. Too much is too much,” she told a press briefing in central
\nParis on Monday, flanked by her husband and their lawyer.<\/p>\n

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Lauvergeon named Sebastien de Montessus, whom she appointed
\nas the head of Areva’s mining business in 2007, as one of the
\npeople who ordered the Swiss report.<\/p>\n

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“I would be surprised if an ambitious young man like
\nSebastien de Montessus had commissionned a report on his boss’s
\nhusband without having powerful allies,” she said.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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