PARIS-A search was held in Paris at the headquarters of Bolloré Africa Logitics Group as part of an investigation into the conditions for granting the concession of the Port of Conakry, revealed this Tuesday the French press.
the Bolloré tower, including the headquarters of Bolloré Africa Logistics group, was the subject of a search Friday in Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine) in an investigation of the conditions for granting concessions port of Conakry (Guinea) and Lome (Togo), according to AFP.
investigators from the central Office for the fight against corruption and financial and tax offenses (OCLCIFF) visited the offices of CEO Vincent Bolloré – absent during the operation – director General and the legal Director of the group, says the same source.
This search was conducted as part of a judicial inquiry entrusted to judges financial and including on suspicion of “foreign public official corruption.” A preliminary investigation was initiated in July 2012 by the Paris prosecutor and the case was transferred to the national financial parquet, says AFP.
the police are wondering whether the group of Breton billionaire Vincent Bolloré, Havas advertising has used his arm to facilitate the obtaining of port management in Guinea Conakry and Lome, Togo, says AFP quoting the World .
“During the search, it was asked of documents on port concessions in Africa and we gave them “ said Mr. Olivier Baratelli, lawyer of the Bolloré group, contacted by AFP.
Agence France Presse quoted always Le Monde notes in a statement, the Bolloré group says that in terms of port activities, “there is considerable investment (…) for which they are selected exclusively based on the amount and quality of technical investment.”
Three months after his inauguration, Guinean President Alpha Conde, was terminated by decree the concession agreement of the container terminal at the Conakry port granted in 2008 for a term of 25 years to Getma, a subsidiary of NCT Necotrans the owner.
the Guinean government had given a few days later the management of the port Bolloré group, sparking a legal battle between two rivals. The Bolloré group was sentenced in 2013 by the Commercial Court of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) to pay over $ 2 million in NCT Necotransn reminds AFP.
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