This pattern of requesting that someone become an informant and then punishing the person when he refuses is also something that's a common US pattern, where it

This pattern of requesting that someone become an informant and then punishing the person when he refuses is also something that's a common US pattern, where it's been used against European business people. Alstom had a fantastic turbine business that they bought from ABB, then they had some trouble, 3 billion, then the US arrests a guy and fines them 700 million, and that's enough to put the company in dire straits, and then GE bids on it and gets it, so suddenly France no longer controls the company that makes the steam turbines for the nuclear plants. Of course, that was re-acquired, but for a while France was dependent on a US company for their nuclear plant steam turbines, and the gas turbine part is wholly in the US.