The ongoing investigation is sending alarm bells ringing among Ivory Coast's political elite and draws in one of the country's wealthiest men. The inquiry, being meticulously pieced together at the Nanterre judicial court near Paris, is probing members of President Alassane Ouattara's inner circle. It gravitates around Ivorian-Lebanese business magnate Hassan Dakhlallah, CEO of leading construction company Porteo BTP, and focuses on large cash payments made in Paris.
The investigation was opened several
