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Did relatives of the former Prime Minister approach businessman Lucien Ebata with a view to secretly financing his nascent campaign for the 2017 presidential election? This is what the judicial customs suspect, as part of the investigation into the company Orion Oil and the possible embezzlement of Congolese oil money.
Release reveals the workings of what could be one of the main channels for diverting Congolese oil revenues, from Paris to Brazzaville via Switzerland and Monaco. In question, the company Orion Oil and its boss Lucien Ebata, close to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and with multiple relations with French economic and political personalities. Find all our articles here.
On November 22, 2016, Lucien Ebata is in Paris and as usual, he has multiplied the appointments in a salon of the Peninsula, a Parisian palace near the avenue des Champs-Elysées. “Some people from this country came to see me,” said the CEO of oil trading group Orion Oil at 8:30 p.m. on the phone to Philo Ebata, his wife. The wealthy Canadian-Congolese businessman does not suspect it, but his telephone lines, as well as those of his entourage, are monitored: he is then targeted by a meticulous and complex judicial investigation begun four years earlier, of which the