Alfred Sirven

Alfred Sirven ( born January 6, 1927 in Toulouse, † 12 February 2005 in Deauville ) was a top executive of the French oil company Elf Aquitaine.

Sirven from 1989 to 1993, the number two of the former French state-owned Elf Aquitaine and then head of Elf Aquitaine Worldwide. He was one of the masterminds behind the corruption scandal surrounding the Elf Aquitaine Group. The Elf Empire had its oil business is conducted in the early 1990s global with the help of commission payments with triple-digit millions. According to information from the newspaper Le Monde Sirven distributed globally at least 1.5 billion francs ( 230 million euros ) bribe.

These business practices have also been applied in the so-called Leuna affair, in which Elf Aquitaine 1992/1993 took over the Leuna refinery in Saxony- Anhalt and the gas station chain Minol. He was also suspected to be associated with the German party donation affair.

Sirven had fled in 1997 before corruption investigation by the slush funds of his Elf Group to the Philippines. On January 23, 2001, he was put there, the flight from Manila went off on February 2, and finally Sirven was arrested on 3 February 2001 at the Frankfurt airport. He refused to make any statement on the Leuna affair and was extradited to France on 6 February and arrested in Santé.

On 12 November 2003 he was sentenced to five years in prison. On 13 May 2004 Sirven was set free again after three years and three months in prison. The Paris Court of Appeal has previously decided to suspend the execution of the remainder of the sentence against the 77 -year-olds to 150,000 euro bail.

Sirven died on 12 February 2005 at the age of 78 years in the French town of Deauville from heart failure.

• Manager
• Person (Toulouse)
• Frenchman
• Born 1927
• Died in 2005
• Man