André Tarallo (Monsieur Afrique)

Elf's chairman Loïk le Floch-Prigent and its Africa fixer André Tarallo were jailed...

Of the three gaoled Elf officials Loïk le Floch-Prigent (five years) Alfred Sirven (five years) and André Tarallo aka 'Monsieur Afrique' (four years) Tarallo's testimony on Africa will be most sought...

That will be hard: he is still starting searches questioning new witnesses and only now taking evidence from Alfred Sirven said to have run Elf's financial web in the 1980s and '90s alongside its Monsieur Afrique André Tarallo...

With the final million outstanding Monsieur wrote to Sigolet and to André Tarallo Elf's then Finance Director threatening that if he did not get his money he could release damaging documents - orders for arms and ammunition for Lissouba's government some of them signed JS (as in Jacques Sigolet); instructions to FIBA for payment; details of payments for President Omar Bongo's election campaign; and papers about a financial link to Sonangol Angola's state oil company with details of its account at the Crédit Commercial de France...

André Tarallo a business associate of Gaydamak's and former head of Elf-Africa last year told Joly's probe about a series of slush funds the oil major was running in Africa...

This focussed on Bongo's relationship with André Tarallo Elf-Gabon's disgraced and ousted Président-Directeur Général...

Things were made even sourer by the driving out of Elf's former old guard notably its African supremo André Tarallo...

André Tarallo a veteran of the late Jacques Foccart's politico-financial network in Africa was until April President of Elf-Gabon...

At the centre of the Elf-Gabon-Gaullist nexus is André Tarallo the President of Elf- Gabon...

The head of Elf-Gabon the enduring André Tarallo has been questioned...