Former French Prime Minister François Fillon has been appointed to the board of directors of Russian state oil company Zarubezhneft, according to a list published by a website specializing in business information disclosure.

Zarubezhneft did not respond Friday to a request for comment on the list published on the Interfax news agency’s e-disclosure.ru website, which said Fillon has been a member of the board since June 28.

Fillon, who led the French government under President Nicolas Sarkozy from 2007 to 2012, heads Apteras, a consulting firm he founded after the scandal surrounding the 2017 presidential election.

His election campaign was overshadowed by a false job scandal for which he was sentenced by a court in June 2020 to five years in prison, three of which were suspended.

He has already worked with Russian companies through Aptera, and in June the Moscow government appointed him to the board of Zarubezhneft.

Fillon, 67, is the latest in a long list of former European leaders to join Russian energy companies.

Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, who danced with President Vladimir Putin at her wedding in 2018, was appointed to the board of Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil producer, in June.

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been Rosneft’s CEO since 2017 and earns $600,000 a year.