Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has been appointed to the board of directors of a Russian public oil group, according to a disclosure Saturday by a Russian business platform.
The Business Information Disclosure Centre run by Russian news agency, Interfax, published Fillon’s name on the list of its members as an administrator of state oil group Zarubezhneft, which has active operations in Algeria, Vietnam, Libya, Syria and Cuba.
He joined the company as chairman of the consulting company, Apteras SARL, which he founded in 2017.
In June, French media reported Fillon getting close to the Kremlin after his candidacy for the board of the Russian oil company was proposed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustine.
Fillon, who was in office as the French premier from 2007-2012, supported Russian military intervention in Syria in 2015.
He considered President Vladimir Putin an ‘honest broker’ in the Syrian conflict and blamed the EU for pushing him in the corner with sanctions against Moscow.
Putin, in turn, hailed Fillon as an ‘upstanding person’ for trying to improve relations with Russia.
While campaigning in the 2017 presidential elections, the center-right politician made known his pro-Russia stance, calling the EU’s economic sanctions ‘totally ineffective’ and assured he would do his best to lift the sanctions if he came to power.
Fillon’s candidacy against French President Emmanuel Macron was overturned after his name surfaced in a fake job scam involving his wife.
Last year, he was found guilty and sentenced to a five-year prison term, three of which were suspended and the couple was fined €375,000 ($445,000).
🤔Money doesn’t smell?
When you have something in common with your crush😳
The European top politicians play 8dimensional chess – they will just all get appointed to russian oil boards so that they slowly take them over themselves. I see you europeans..I see you…
François Fion
He should be in jail.
Rends l’pognon fion!
Another corrupt politician that we « fail » to put in jail, disgusting. And he almost got a shot at being president, what a putrid joke. We really need to put an end to this kind of behavior, they’re just spitting to our faces
Following the steps of Schröder. Disgusting.
This should be considered treason and be punishable. Those old fucks don’t care anymore, they just want money. Fuck them.
One more reason to speed up green economy transition. Fossil fuel is pollution, corruption and supporting of authoritarian regimes all over the world.
How is he valuable to the Russian oil company? Or are these appointments payments for old favors?
First reaction from Lithuania (Linas linkevicius – diplomat, former minister of defense, former minister of foreign affairs): https://imgur.com/a/Bcfwywp
We need a law to prevent this from happening. This guy and his wife should be rotting in jail. Or if it’s not possible to catch him we should freeze all his assets in France. It baffles me that people who come from the private sector and try their hands at politics are heavily scrutinized, always suspected to favor their previous company, but that politicians who go to the private sector are not.
Honestly, a politician selling information on our nuclear weapons, on our army, on other politicians, on our spies, our tech and economy, etc… to an unfriendly country seems much scarier to me than a politician favoring his ex company during a procurement.
Lots of whores in Western Europe ripe for Russian state money.
Il m’étonnera toujours … Jusqu’ou peut-on sombrer ?
Je propose d’ajouter son nom au dictionnaire comme synonyme de corruption.
sad that he didn’t become the president because of corruption scandal. afaik he had good chances
Good for him. Congratulations.
And ppl keep asking why EE have trust issue with Germany/France.
A traitor.
Nothing more, nothing less.
It’s just absolutely disgusting how western Europeans trust russians with anything. Only reason for this barbaric country to still exist are business deals made with Germany, France etc.
-_-
Nothing suprising. Western Europe constantly fucks the east over making bussiness with Russia. This is why a hypothetical war between them won’t ever happen. Putin will gradually take over Ukraine and they won’t even lift a finger.
I wonder when Merkel gets similar reward
Rends l’argent fdp
Fuck him. I hate the fact that a dress and suit is what snack him, but not his pro-Putin stance.
>He considered President Vladimir Putin an ‘honest broker’ in the Syrian conflict and blamed the EU for pushing him in the corner with sanctions against Moscow.
He did a Schröder.
I’m all for jaling corrupted officials, but some of you are real drama queens, would you be screaming like that if he joined an american oil company instead ?
Schröder-style.
Putin’s corruption is spreading to Europe
Rends l’argent !
I thought all Russian corporation and those that worked for them was under sanction…
François rend l’argent !
France should pull his residency permit.
He joins a list of other western politicians doing the same
Schroder (Germany chancellor)
Schussel (Austria chancellor)
Fillon (France prime minister)
Kneissl (Austria foreign Minister)
Schelling (Austria finance minister)
Lipponen (Finland prime minister)
Voscherau (Germany SPD politician)
There seems to be quite the overlap between the skillset involved in running a major European country and that of serving on the board of Russian state-run energy companies.
This is becoming too recurring to be something that just happens.
West is corrupt as fuck …
Good, we need closer ties between russia and the eu
On of the reasons Russia (political elite) are convinced that Western democracies are as corrupt and kleptocratic as Russia is by how easily Western politicians, lawyers, banker and accountants etc can be brought.
Didn’t Gerhard Schroeder also go off to work for a Russian gas company?
So i guess Russia wont nuke France in the future.
Hahaha, all these eastern europeans “omg you are doing business with russia over my head! you can’t do that! you have to pay me to allow you to do that!”
I’m more surprised by the fact we haven’t put him in jail yet. Corrupted piece of shit.
I think they had his name wrong from the start. In fact it’s “_François Félon_”, which explains a lot.
EU politicians are easy and cheap.
When EU politicians say things like Russia is/should be our friend, they arent talking about EU countries and Russia being friends, but about themselves…
He was always bought by the Russians. Five years ago he campaigned on a platform of complete non-interference with Syria, and he never said a negative thing about Russia while constantly criticizing both parties in the US. No need to look further. These things do not happen by accident.
First former German ministers now French ones, joining Russian energy companies. Who’s next? Dutch, Irish, which nation is most likely next?
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Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has been appointed to the board of directors of a Russian public oil group, according to a disclosure Saturday by a Russian business platform.
The Business Information Disclosure Centre run by Russian news agency, Interfax, published Fillon’s name on the list of its members as an administrator of state oil group Zarubezhneft, which has active operations in Algeria, Vietnam, Libya, Syria and Cuba.
He joined the company as chairman of the consulting company, Apteras SARL, which he founded in 2017.
In June, French media reported Fillon getting close to the Kremlin after his candidacy for the board of the Russian oil company was proposed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustine.
Fillon, who was in office as the French premier from 2007-2012, supported Russian military intervention in Syria in 2015.
He considered President Vladimir Putin an ‘honest broker’ in the Syrian conflict and blamed the EU for pushing him in the corner with sanctions against Moscow.
Putin, in turn, hailed Fillon as an ‘upstanding person’ for trying to improve relations with Russia.
While campaigning in the 2017 presidential elections, the center-right politician made known his pro-Russia stance, calling the EU’s economic sanctions ‘totally ineffective’ and assured he would do his best to lift the sanctions if he came to power.
Fillon’s candidacy against French President Emmanuel Macron was overturned after his name surfaced in a fake job scam involving his wife.
Last year, he was found guilty and sentenced to a five-year prison term, three of which were suspended and the couple was fined €375,000 ($445,000).
🤔Money doesn’t smell?
When you have something in common with your crush😳
The European top politicians play 8dimensional chess – they will just all get appointed to russian oil boards so that they slowly take them over themselves. I see you europeans..I see you…
François Fion
He should be in jail.
Rends l’pognon fion!
Another corrupt politician that we « fail » to put in jail, disgusting. And he almost got a shot at being president, what a putrid joke. We really need to put an end to this kind of behavior, they’re just spitting to our faces
Following the steps of Schröder. Disgusting.
This should be considered treason and be punishable. Those old fucks don’t care anymore, they just want money. Fuck them.
One more reason to speed up green economy transition. Fossil fuel is pollution, corruption and supporting of authoritarian regimes all over the world.
How is he valuable to the Russian oil company? Or are these appointments payments for old favors?
First reaction from Lithuania (Linas linkevicius – diplomat, former minister of defense, former minister of foreign affairs): https://imgur.com/a/Bcfwywp
We need a law to prevent this from happening. This guy and his wife should be rotting in jail. Or if it’s not possible to catch him we should freeze all his assets in France. It baffles me that people who come from the private sector and try their hands at politics are heavily scrutinized, always suspected to favor their previous company, but that politicians who go to the private sector are not.
Honestly, a politician selling information on our nuclear weapons, on our army, on other politicians, on our spies, our tech and economy, etc… to an unfriendly country seems much scarier to me than a politician favoring his ex company during a procurement.
Lots of whores in Western Europe ripe for Russian state money.
Il m’étonnera toujours … Jusqu’ou peut-on sombrer ?
Je propose d’ajouter son nom au dictionnaire comme synonyme de corruption.
sad that he didn’t become the president because of corruption scandal. afaik he had good chances
Good for him. Congratulations.
And ppl keep asking why EE have trust issue with Germany/France.
A traitor.
Nothing more, nothing less.
It’s just absolutely disgusting how western Europeans trust russians with anything. Only reason for this barbaric country to still exist are business deals made with Germany, France etc.
-_-
Nothing suprising. Western Europe constantly fucks the east over making bussiness with Russia. This is why a hypothetical war between them won’t ever happen. Putin will gradually take over Ukraine and they won’t even lift a finger.
I wonder when Merkel gets similar reward
Rends l’argent fdp
Fuck him. I hate the fact that a dress and suit is what snack him, but not his pro-Putin stance.
>He considered President Vladimir Putin an ‘honest broker’ in the Syrian conflict and blamed the EU for pushing him in the corner with sanctions against Moscow.
He did a Schröder.
I’m all for jaling corrupted officials, but some of you are real drama queens, would you be screaming like that if he joined an american oil company instead ?
Schröder-style.
Putin’s corruption is spreading to Europe
Rends l’argent !
I thought all Russian corporation and those that worked for them was under sanction…
François rend l’argent !
France should pull his residency permit.
He joins a list of other western politicians doing the same
Schroder (Germany chancellor)
Schussel (Austria chancellor)
Fillon (France prime minister)
Kneissl (Austria foreign Minister)
Schelling (Austria finance minister)
Lipponen (Finland prime minister)
Voscherau (Germany SPD politician)
There seems to be quite the overlap between the skillset involved in running a major European country and that of serving on the board of Russian state-run energy companies.
This is becoming too recurring to be something that just happens.
West is corrupt as fuck …
Good, we need closer ties between russia and the eu
On of the reasons Russia (political elite) are convinced that Western democracies are as corrupt and kleptocratic as Russia is by how easily Western politicians, lawyers, banker and accountants etc can be brought.
Didn’t Gerhard Schroeder also go off to work for a Russian gas company?
So i guess Russia wont nuke France in the future.
Hahaha, all these eastern europeans “omg you are doing business with russia over my head! you can’t do that! you have to pay me to allow you to do that!”
I’m more surprised by the fact we haven’t put him in jail yet. Corrupted piece of shit.
I think they had his name wrong from the start. In fact it’s “_François Félon_”, which explains a lot.
EU politicians are easy and cheap.
When EU politicians say things like Russia is/should be our friend, they arent talking about EU countries and Russia being friends, but about themselves…
He was always bought by the Russians. Five years ago he campaigned on a platform of complete non-interference with Syria, and he never said a negative thing about Russia while constantly criticizing both parties in the US. No need to look further. These things do not happen by accident.
First former German ministers now French ones, joining Russian energy companies. Who’s next? Dutch, Irish, which nation is most likely next?
Rend l’argent François !
Le plus pourri de tous, et c’est peu dire !
One more Russian marionette. 🤡
Rends l argent