Christine Deviers-Joncour

Christine Deviers-Joncour (born June 28, 1947 in La Cassagne , Dordogne ) is a former lover of the former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas , who was also a lobbyist between 1989 and 1993 for the then state-owned French oil company Elf Aquitaine . € commissions are said to have received in order to influence Dumas.

biography

She married the politician Jean-Jacques De Peretti in 1965 , ran an art gallery and a small PR agency, and had two sons. This marriage failed and in 1976 she married a second time, now businessman Claude Joncour . During a political campaign against her ex-husband, she got to know the future French foreign minister and star lawyer Roland Dumas better.

In 2006 she married the Norwegian musician Alf Emil Eik .

The Elf Affair

As early as 1988, Alfred Sirven Deviers-Joncour, vice -boss of the eleven, is said to have asked to arrange a dinner with Dumas and Loïk Le Floch-Prigent to promote Le Floch-Prigent. Le Floch-Prigent was laid off in 1986 after a change of government at his former company Rhône-Poulenc and was looking for new employment. Sirven is said to have asked for this dinner as a kind of impresario of his former boss Deviers-Joncour, in order to heave Le Floch-Prigent into the executive chair at Elf Aquitaine in 1989, which he then held as "Director of General Affairs".

Deviers-Joncour received one of two employment contracts in 1989 from André Tarallo , the former "Monsieur Afrique" of the Elf Group. Jean-Claude Vauchez , the former head of the Elf Aquitaine Internationale EAI branch in Geneva, is said to have given Deviers-Joncour a company credit card and made payments to the account of her former lover, the businessman Gilbert Miara . At all stages of Deviers-Joncours' bogus employment, Miara appeared, according to the prosecutor. Some of the payments charged to Deviers-Joncours were processed through his account.

She is said to have invested around € 2.6 million of the money in a luxurious apartment at 19 rue de Lille in Paris , where she received Dumas, € 50,000 in a series of costly restaurant visits, € 45,000 in Greek statuettes and € 1,800 in a pair of hand-sewn shoes as gifts for Dumas.

For alleged a fictitious employment to disguise a bribe of former Foreign Minister Dumas Deviers-Joncour was on 7 November 1997 for five months in Fleury-Mérogis in custody taken. After an examining magistrate called her a "whore of the republic", she later published a book under this title in which she presented the matter from her point of view. The fact is that the former Vice-Chief of Elf Aquitaine Sirven sent them to Dumas with the words: " Tell your minister that there will be a golden key for your love ".

The background to the corruption allegations was the sale of six frigates by the Thales armaments and electronics company to Taiwan in 1991 , against which Dumas had spoken out out of consideration for the People's Republic of China .

Deviers-Joncour was sentenced to 18 months in prison at the first instance , against which she appealed. She had already been in custody for six months in 1997 and 1998, and in 2004 she served another four months of her sentence.

Publications

• La putain de la Republique . 1999, (German The Whore of the Republic . 2001 Petersen Verlag), ISBN 2-29030-419-0
• Relation publique . 2000, (German public relations , Petersen Verlag), ISBN 2-72021-376-4
• Trio . Jean-Jacques Pauvert Publishing House, 2001
• Operation Bravo . Pocket publisher, 2000
• Toi masculin mon feminine . 2004
• Corruption - Une affaire d'Etats: La femme à abattre . 2005