Alfred Sirven

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

Life

From 1989 to 1993 Sirven was number two of the former French state-owned company Elf Aquitaine and then head of Elf Aquitaine Internationale. He was one of the masterminds behind the corruption affair surrounding the Elf Aquitaine group. In the early 1990s, the Eleven Empire had its oil deals worldwide with the aid of commission payments in the three-digit million range. According to information from the daily Le Monde , Sirven distributed at least 1.5 billion francs (around 230 million euros) in bribes worldwide.

These business practices were also used in the so-called Leuna affair , in which Elf Aquitaine took over the Leuna refinery in Saxony-Anhalt and the Minol petrol station chain in 1992/1993 . He was also suspected of being connected to the CDU donation affair .

Sirven fled to the Philippines in 1997 from corruption investigations into the black coffers of his eleven corporation . He was arrested on January 23, 2001 , the flight from Manila departed on February 2, and finally Sirven was arrested on February 3, 2001 at Frankfurt Airport . He refused to give any evidence about the Leuna affair and was extradited to France on February 6 and arrested in Santé . The investigative committee of the German Bundestag now hoped in vain to learn something from the arrested Sirven about the "suspected payments to German politicians from the camp of the former Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU)".

On November 12, 2003, he was sentenced to five years in prison. Sirven was released on May 13, 2004 after three years and three months in prison. The Paris Court of Appeal had previously decided to suspend the execution of the remaining sentence against the 77-year-old against a bail of 150,000 euros .

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Died: Alfred Sirven . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 2005 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Alfred Sirven dead - The shadow man of the bribe empire of Elf. In: FAZ Online. February 13, 2005, accessed November 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sirven, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French top manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2005
Place of death Deauville