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In September 2004, Serge Dassault put pressure on the editors of the newspaper Le Figaro, which he owns through Socpresse, not to publish an interview with Andrew Wang [Wikidata], the main arms dealer involved.[2][3] The interview was eventually published in the newsmagazine Le Point in September 2004.
Arbitration between Taiwan and the suppliers
In 2017, the Permanent Court of Arbitration ordered Dassault Aviation, Thales, Safran, and MBDA to pay the sum of 226 million euros to Taiwan for the commissions they paid against the contractual provisions of the arms deal .[4][5]