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> After eight years of investigations
> Note that date line chief. March 17th 2003.

Note what you just quoted.

and read this:
http://www.fsa.ulaval.ca/personnel/VernaG/EH/F/ethique/lectures/l'affaire_elf.htm

Le Floc Prigent has been "mis en examen", which is a kind of "pre-prison",
where the person has to be available to the judge at any time, which means
impossibility to leave the city (not even the country), 35 times in 8
years, one being 2001:

and:- Mai 31, 2001 : Loic le Floc Prigent is condemned to 3 1/2 year in
Jail and 2 million francs fine.

It's just impossible that he would have been able to be both in Iraq and in
jail in the same time, does not it? And a councelor of Chirac. Do you think
Rove will still be a councelor if he his jailed?

That word... councelor... are there other arabic translations?

Then how was he in Lebanon in 2002? And this story confirms their sentences were suspended, and he wasn't under house arrest, he was out of the country for goodness sake!

Key witness in Elf Aquitaine appeals case in Beirut hospital

Appeals proceedings of former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas in the Elf Aquitaine bribery case faced possible postponement after the lawyer for another person convicted in the case said Saturday that his client was in hospital in Beirut.

The lawyer said former Elf chief executive Loik Le Floch-Prigent would not be able to appear for the proceedings, which were due to start on Monday.

Le Floch-Prigent's family said that he had travelled to Lebanon last Monday, but now was suffering from an acute inflammation of the pancreas.

He is the second person linked to the case to have gone to Beirut after German businessman Dieter Holzer.

French justice officials have accused Holzer of having assisted in the embezzlement of Elf funds in the deal involving the sale of the eastern German refining plant Leuna to Elf.

In May 2001, Le Floch-Prigent, Dumas, his former mistress Christine Deviers-Joncour and Elf executive Alred Sirvens were served suspended jail sentences and fines in the Elf kickback case.

Dumas was appealing the sentence, with the proceedings to have started on Monday. dpa bb ds

Copyright 2002 Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
March 2, 2002, Saturday
18:40 Central European Time

LE Floc was not the counselor of Chirac but he was called for a meeting by Chirac counselor and other French officials upon his return form the first trip in Iraq.