Loik Le Floch-Prigent (born 21 September 1943 in
Brest
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) is a French engineer and manager. He was CEO of
Elf Aquitaine
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between July 1989 and 1993, then president of
SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi ...
from December 1995 to July 1996, when he was indicted in connection with the
Elf affair
.
[
] He is the nephew of the poet
Maodez Glanndour.
He was charged in September 2012 with being an accessory to fraud whilst in
Togo
Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...
after a complaint from an Emirati businessman, was filed claiming that he had been manipulated out of $48 million.
He was extradited to
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
and appeared before a judge where he was questioned for three hours in
Lomé
Lomé is the capital and largest city of Togo. It has an urban population of 837,437 .
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French businesspeople
French chief executives
SNCF people
TotalEnergies people
1943 births
Living people
French people imprisoned abroad
People extradited from Togo
People extradited to Ivory Coast
People from Brest, France
French people of Breton descent