{"id":462904,"date":"2018-10-20T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.financialafrik.com\/?p=462904"},"modified":"2018-10-20T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T13:37:15","slug":"france-total-judged-for-corruption-of-public-officials-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.financialafrik.com\/en\/2018\/10\/20\/france-total-judged-for-corruption-of-public-officials-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Total judged for &#8220;corruption of public officials abroad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left\"><\/div><p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office on Friday ordered the confiscation of 250 million euros against the oil group Total, tried for corruption of foreign public officials on the sidelines of the conclusion of contracts in Iran in 1997.<br \/>\nIn addition to this confiscation by the State, by way of additional penalty, the alleged proceeds of the offense, he also asked for a fine of 750,000 euros, the maximum incurred by a legal person in this type of case.<br \/>\nThe judgment was reserved on December 21st.<br \/>\nTotal is believed to have paid some $ 30 million in bribes between 2000 and 2004 under a consultancy contract to facilitate the signing of an agreement for the huge South Pars gas field.<br \/>\nFor the prosecutor, the contract with Baston Associated LTD &#8220;actually covered corruptive payments&#8221;, much of it intended for a son of former Iranian President Hachemi Rafsanjani (1989-1997), Mehdi.<br \/>\nHe then ran subsidiaries of the Iranian national oil company NIOC, with whom Total signed the South Pars contract on September 28, 1997.<br \/>\nThe prosecutor agreed that Total&#8217;s &#8220;pattern of corruption&#8221; used by Iran at the time was a thing of the past and that &#8220;it should be done differently today&#8221; to achieve the same ends.<br \/>\nHe nonetheless asked the court to &#8220;assert the place of France in the fight against international corruption&#8221; and send a message to large companies, as well as to the countries with which they deal, by sanctioning Total.<br \/>\nThe audience was briefly interrupted by a couple holding placards proclaiming: &#8220;Corruption destroys our freedom in Iran.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn May 2013, the oil group concluded a transaction with the US authorities putting an end to the US lawsuits on similar facts.<br \/>\nTotal had agreed to pay $ 245 million to the US Department of Justice and $ 153 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).<br \/>\nDETACHED PROTAGONISTS<br \/>\nOn Thursday, during the first hearing, her lawyers had notably invoked the principle that no one can be tried twice for the same facts.<br \/>\nThe representative of Total, Jean-Jacques Guilbaud, former director of human resources and former secretary general, now advising the CEO, had evaded the questions to avoid, he said, &#8220;the slightest difference&#8221; compared to the version delivered as part of the procedure in the United States.<br \/>\nThe oil group, legal entity, is the last defendant in this trial. The others have disappeared.<br \/>\nChristophe de Margerie, who at the time was managing director of Total Middle East, which he will later become the CEO, was killed in a plane crash in Moscow.<br \/>\nIranian intermediary Bijan Dadfar, a leader of Baston Associated LTD, who was to be tried for complicity, has recently died of illness, his lawyer told Reuters.<br \/>\nAnother Iranian intermediary prosecuted for complicity, Abbas Yazdi, reputedly close to Mehdi Rafsanjani, for his part was kidnapped in Dubai and his body was never found, according to his former French lawyer. The prosecutor nonetheless requested formally against him three to four years in prison.<br \/>\nIn their pleadings, Total&#8217;s lawyers again challenged the charge of bribery, at least under the laws in force at the time, and defended the idea that the alleged acts related to trading in influence at the time. foreigner, then not repressed by French law.<br \/>\n&#8220;The facts of which your court is seized date more than 20 years (&#8230;) Over the past 20 years, laws and practices have profoundly transformed,&#8221; argued Claude Serra. &#8220;Total has taken all possible measures to be preserved today from the risk of corruption.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Total is no longer the same company,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Total today actively participates in the fight against international corruption.&#8221;<br \/>\nSource: Ecodafrik<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office on Friday ordered the confiscation of 250 million euros against the oil group Total, tried for corruption of foreign public officials on the sidelines of the conclusion of contracts in Iran in 1997. 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