The Breton industrialist Vincent Bolloré, net worth 8billion U.S dollars, was placed in police custody in the early morning of Tuesday, April 24 at the premises of the judicial police in Nanterre, France.
On the billionaire businessman, weighed suspicions of corruption in Africa, including the conditions for obtaining in 2010 two of the sixteen container terminals in the ports of Lome and Conakry.
In the opinion of the French prosecutor, the head of companies would have taken advantage of his communication agency, Havas to gain access to the power of African heads of state, and thus delight concessions to operate these terminals.
They establish a parallel between the management of the presidential campaigns in 2010 of presidents Guinean Alpha Condé and Togolese Faure Gnassingbé at derisory prices by Havas, and the acquisition of port rights by Bolloré Africa Logistics.
Vincent Bolloré's activities are immense in Cameroon. Ranging from the Kribi deep sea port to the rail transport system. He also has made signatures in inner territorial spaces like the university of Yaoundé 1 where an autobus transport system plies campus streets, powered by solar energy.
A good gesture it may seem, but more of a means to an end it is.