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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. [...]

Published on 01.06.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Ali Bongo
Brice Laccruche Alihanga
Direction Generale de la Recherche
Direction Generale des Services Speciaux
Gabriel Mally Hodjoua
Ian Gyslain Ngoulou
Jean Norbert Madjoupa
Michael Moussa Adamo
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Vincent de Paul Massassa
Yves Barrasouaga

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Domestic debt task force meeting chaired by Nouredin Bongo (far right).

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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.

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

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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.

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2020

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

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'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.

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

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Michael Moussa Adamo
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Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Gabon
Operation Scorpion comes under fresh fire over disappearing vehicles

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

Gabon
Gendarmerie intel chief sidelines his number two

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

Gabon
Maurel & Prom and Libreville gear up for arbitration

Inner circles | Gabon
Noureddin Bongo's parallel task force network

Gabon
After Ngambia's release, could Laccruche be next?

Gabon
Libreville tries to play off Trafigura against Augusta

Spotlight | Gabon
'Scorpion' becomes a French affair