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Gloves come off in secretive crackdown on Brice Laccruche Alihanga

In the absence of the president Ali Bongo, who returned to Libreville on 27 November after a stay in London, the Gabonese courts swiftly launched an anti-corruption drive that is targeting as a priority the allies of the president's former [...] (667 words)

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Gabon Oil Co
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Grégory Laccruche Alihanga
Ike Ngouoni Aila Oyouomi
Ismaël Ondias Souna
Julien Engonga Owono
Landry Régis Laccruche Lelabou
Noël Mboumba
Office des Ports et Rades du Gabon
Patrichi Christian Tanasa
Renaud Allogho Akoué
Société équatoriale des mines
Société Gabonaise de Raffinage
Stephan Privat
Vincent de Paul Massassa

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The oil minister, driven by lingering resentment of both the founder and employees of Gabon Oil Co's marketing subsidiary, is delaying the placement of its former staff in other subsidiaries of the state firm. [...]

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Royal Haskoning and Arise advise Gabon Oil Co on its gas project

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After being placed into custody on 11 September, Libreville mayor Léandre Nzué has been questioned about his handling of the town's finances and the way he financed spending on clothing and cars. [...]

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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. [...]

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GABON 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. [...]

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Apollinaire Alassa takes over as OPRAG boss

Appointed on 31 January as the head of the Office des ports et rades du Gabon, 54-year-old Apollinare Alassa has [...]

GABON 28/01/2020

President's office leaning towards mining bidding round

The president's office is keen to ride on a wave of foreign interest in Gabon's manganese sector (AMI 452) to [...]

GABON 22/01/2020

Scorpion inquiry looks into government arrears

The Scorpion anti-corruption drive is now focusing on the sensitive subject of how well-connected companies succeeded in obtaining payment of arrears owed to them by the government. [...]

GABON 08/01/2020

Laccruche reaches for his get out of jail free card

In detention since 13 December in a 9m2 cell with two former ministers, Brice Laccruche is hoping to take advantage of his intimate knowledge of the Bongo family's business interests to counter-attack. [...]

GABON 18/12/2019

How 'Operation Scorpion' was born

The initial seed of the 'Scorpion' anti-corruption drive, which culminated on 13 December with the arrest of the president's ex-chief of staff Brice Laccruche, was a dossier compiled by long-term fixtures in Ali Bongo's regime. [...]

GABON 04/12/2019

One reshuffle after another…

It seems that each month now brings with it a [...]

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How the Bongo family ushered Brice Laccruche out the back door

Tensions? What tensions? Just 48 hours after the West Africa Newsletter reported on the electric atmosphere that had been reigning [...]

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The oil revenues deal that will pay the civil servants Free

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Laccruche's special security detail

A few weeks ago, Ali Bongo's chief of staff Brice [...]

FRANCE GABON 16/01/2019

Investigation opened into ‘Libreville commando unit'

The abortive putsch on 7 January in Libreville has prompted Paris to ascertain why a French commando unit was present in Gabon just a few weeks previously. [...]

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GABON 02/01/2019

Shadowy presence of French commando squad unnerves Libreville

In the absence of Ali Bongo, who is convalescing in Morocco after suffering a stroke in Riyadh on 24 October, the Gabonese government has rapidly disintegrated into squabbling factions. And in this already febrile climate, the arrival in Libreville of [. [...]

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Direction générale de la contre-ingérence et de la sécurité militaire
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François Engonga Owono
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Grégory Laccruche Alihanga
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Ismaël Ondias Souna
Julien Engonga Owono
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Noël Mboumba
Office des Ports et Rades du Gabon
Patrichi Christian Tanasa
Renaud Allogho Akoué
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