Mr Dumas' trial heard that the mistress, Christine Deviers-Joncour, showered him with luxury gifts, paid for by Elf to win his influence.
It is one of suspected bribery on a huge scale by Elf executives, who managed a sophisticated lobbying network on behalf of other French firms.
Mrs Deviers-Joncour, who was employed by Elf, used some of the money to buy a luxury flat in Paris and spent freely, using a credit card provided by Elf.
She now says that a luxury Paris flat paid for by Elf was not a second home to Mr Dumas, but that he merely popped in from time to time.
French judges investigating misuse of funds in 1989-93 by Elf , then a state-run oil company, were denied access to papers detailing bribes paid to foreign firms to win contracts.
Mr Dumas is suspected of having benefited from an illegal multi-million dollar payment to a former lover by the oil company, Elf Aquitaine.
This particular affaire (the French word fittingly can mean either scandal or straightforward business) last year forced the resignation of the finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who this year has been linked by Mrs Joly to the Elf affaire.
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Would that France's scandals involved only Elf and days gone by.
Second, until its privatisation between 1994 and 1996, Elf (which was taken over by Total Fina last September) was not just a company but an agent of the state.
And third partiers such as clients, funders or insurers need to avoid requiring people to do things in the name of 'elf 'n' safety' which are not actually required by the law.
The poem's happy Santa ("he was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf") is consistent with authorship in 1822, as claimed by Moore, and not in the time period cited by the Livingston camp, maintains Nickell.
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