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...DIED. ALFRED SIRVEN, 77, former senior executive of French oil company Elf-Aquitaine, jailed for his role in France's biggest-ever corporate-graft scandal; in Deauville, France. Sirven and his boss, Loik Le Floch Prigent, were convicted in November 2003 of siphoning large sums?Sirven alone allegedly amassed over $222 million?from the then state-owned Elf-Aquitaine between 1989 and 1993 to buy political favors and fund luxurious lifestyles. Sirven received five years in jail in 2001 and was released last May on probation...
...explosive because witnesses are providing detail upon detail about seamy but officially sanctioned practices that, taken together, suggest something was very rotten at the heart of French state capitalism. Elf at the time was state-owned, and the most damning evidence to date has come from its erstwhile CEO, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, and two top corporate lieutenants, Alfred Sirven and André Tarallo, the latter dubbed Mr. Africa. They have meticulously described how Elf kept a slush fund, overseen by Sirven, allegedly used to pay bribes via Swiss accounts to African leaders including Savimbi and Gabon President Omar Bongo...
...batting average. After seven (7) successive walks by a weary Supply School pitcher, the Middies rosily opened up to score five runs in the second inning. Another one-run rally in the fifth led the Carneyites to a moral victory in the seven inning thriller that made the Yanks loik like bush leaguers. (Oh, yes, the Officers...
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