Your account has been succesfully created.

Subscribe now

GABON

Operation Scorpion comes under fresh fire over disappearing vehicles

The disappearance of items seized as part of the Operation Scorpion anti-corruption investigation is continuing to make waves within the Gabonese security forces and gendarmerie. Several vehicles confiscated from Ali Bongo's chief of staff Brice Laccruche Alihanga have now gone missing. [...] (334 words)

Issue dated 01/06/2021 Reading time 2 minutes

This article may be accessed by subscribers and e-wallet holders (USD 12.50)

2 options offered to continue reading

e-wallet

from EUR/USD 50

Only buy articles you are interested in

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

Unlimited access to the website

See our rates

Choose the option that suits you best: Compare all of our offers!

Do you want a free trial before subscribing?

Create your free account

Do you want a free trial before subscribing?

create a free account

Politics

Set up email notifications for these topics

GABON
Ali Bongo
Brice Laccruche Alihanga
Direction générale de la recherche
Direction générale des services spéciaux
Gabriel Mally Hodjoua
Ian Gyslain Ngoulou
Jean Norbert Madjoupa
Michael Moussa Adamo
Toyota
Vincent de Paul Massassa
Yves Barrasouaga

The DGR tackles port customs fraud after coming under fire in Brice Laccruche investigation

The gendarmerie's intelligence service, the DGR, which has carried out most of the recent investigations involving senior Gabonese figures suspected of embezzlement, is currently carrying out a major drive against customs fraud at Gabonese ports.

GABON Politics 14/06/2021

Gendarmerie intel chief sidelines his number two

Spymaster Jean-Norbert Madjoupa, who is at odds with his deputy, delegates his powers to other more trusted officers when he travels abroad.

GABON Business 31/05/2021

Webcor joins KCI and Sericom in seeing its claims against Gabon rebuffed

Holders of unpaid Gabonese debts, who have spent the past 10 years cleaning up in arbitration tribunals, continue to press their demands in French courts. But claims of malfeasance and lack of corroborating evidence have scuppered some such efforts.

GABON Energy 28/05/2021

Maurel & Prom and Libreville gear up for arbitration

The state-owned Indonesian company Pertamina which owns Maurel & Prom has refused to compromise on the compensation it is demanding from Gabon Oil Co and instead the two companies have agreed on the make-up of a Paris arbitration panel.

Domestic debt task force meeting chaired by Nouredin Bongo (far right). © Noureddin Bongo/Twitter

Inner circles

GABON Politics 26/03/2021

Noureddin Bongo's parallel task force network

President Ali Bongo's coordinator and eldest son Noureddin Bongo has found a way to assert his influence in government: task forces. These ad hoc teams of civil servants and consultants are ostensibly there to assist government departments, but can have a tendency to bypass them.

GABON Politics 07/10/2020

After Ngambia's release, could Laccruche be next?

The ex-public works minister Magloire Ngambia, a symbol of the "Mamba" anti-corruption drive, was released on 24 September. Now another high-profile probe into the affairs of former presidential chief of staff Brice Laccruche Alihanga, is also experiencing setbacks that have been kept carefully secret until now.

The former chief of staff to the president's office Brice Laccruche Alihanga.

GABON Energy 26/06/2020

Libreville tries to play off Trafigura against Augusta

Having broken off its contract with Swiss trading group Augusta, which had been lifting part of the production of its refinery operator, Société Gabonaise de Raffinage, Gabon is now trying to find a replacement.

SOGARA refinery in Port Gentil. The contract to lift the company's atmospheric residues is up for bids.

Spotlight

GABON Politics 19/02/2020

'Scorpion' becomes a French affair

In the space of less than three months, the major anti-corruption drive that has claimed the scalps of Ali Bongo's former chief of staff and his allies has become a bone of diplomatic contention between Libreville and Paris.

Set up email notifications for these topics

GABON
Ali Bongo
Brice Laccruche Alihanga
Direction générale de la recherche
Direction générale des services spéciaux
Gabriel Mally Hodjoua
Ian Gyslain Ngoulou
Jean Norbert Madjoupa
Michael Moussa Adamo
Toyota
Vincent de Paul Massassa
Yves Barrasouaga

Once registered, you will be notified by a short message on your computer or mobile phone as soon as a new edition of our publication or an alert is published. Stay informed anytime, anywhere!

Algerian secret services in survival mode in North Mali

As fight against M23 continues, Kigali and Kinshasa wage war of intelligence