Posted on 03/27/2006 7:26:09 AM PST by jveritas
Edited on 03/27/2006 8:12:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
bump
just in case - it's also in #2-B in the main body of the document.
Elf Executives Jailed Over Fueling Corruption in Africa
By Hector Igbikiowubo
Vanguard
November 18, 2003
France's mammoth Elf corruption case, probably the biggest political and corporate sleaze scandal to hit a western democracy since World War II, closed last Wednesday as three key former executives of the oil giant were jailed for up to five years over corrupt practices in Africa. Elf's former chairman, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, 60, was sentenced to five years in jail and fined 375,000 euros (US$375,000); his principal bag-man, the former director Alfred Sirven, was given the same prison term and ordered to pay 1 million euros. The company's "Mr Africa," Andre Tarallo, was jailed for four years and fined 2 million euros. The judge, Michel Desplan, said Le Floch bore "the primary responsibility" for the Elf affair and was "personally behind a majority of the misappropriations". To Sirven, he said: "All this would not have happened without Le Floch, but it could not have existed without your help." The three were among 37 defendants on trial for illegally siphoning off an extraordinary 350 million euros of the then state-owned company's funds, from 1989 to 1993, while Le Floch was chairman.
That may not be correct....
See post #14 !!!!
In case anybody's wondering, most of the rest of the world goes day/month/year, so it's the 10th of January.
Thank you. The body of the translation still shows "did indicate" instead of "did not indicate". Can you please help on this.
It is in the first paragraph as well as in the body of translation in bold letters. Thank you for your help.
Thank you very much. Now it is fixed.
Moderators would be the only ones able to edit that ....I think....if not perhaps the whole thread should be pulled....
The translation has been corrected per request - "did indicate" was changed to "did not indicate" in two places.
Good! Thanks for your work! Are you seeing double yet?
Thank you. It makes a big difference.
Thanks to everyone making these translations possible. Certainly, we're not seeing much of them on most of the network news--including Fox, who seem to have committed all their resources to the sadly murdered minister.
You somehow deleted the NOT in "did NOT indicate this".
I think there is still a problem in #4,#6, and #18....
Oh, ok, it wasn´t you fault.
Yes, I agree.
I would agree to my #18 being pulled if the mod thinks that best.
MI ping
LOL, soon to be one of the most confusing threads of all time!
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