Death of Loïk Le Floch Prigent, a big boss who became a pariah with the Elf affair
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Former CEO Loïk Le Floch Prigent, convicted in the Elf case, died on July 16, 2025, at the age of 81. (Photo taken on March 26, 2007, in Lille, in front of Edhec students.) KARINE DELMAS / LA VOIX DU NORD/MAXPPP
Former head of prestigious public companies, Loïk Le Floch Prigent died on July 16, 2025, at the age of 81. A close friend of François Mitterrand and the Socialist Party, his career was marked by the Elf affair, which precipitated his downfall.
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I subscribeNovember 12, 2003. Judge Michel Desplan announces the sentences handed down to the main defendants in the Elf Aquitaine affair. Loïk Le Floch Prigent, the group's former CEO, was sentenced to five years in prison and a €375,000 fine. He was convicted of embezzlement and misuse of corporate assets. This marked the end of a long legal saga, and the end of Loïk Le Floch Prigent's career, whose upward trajectory had been linear until then. The former CEO passed away on July 16, 2025, at the age of 81.
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