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France, Gabon
Financial prosecutor's office takes up Santullo case

Gabon recently opened up a new front in Paris in its legal dispute with Sericom, founded by the late Guido Santullo. An investigation. [...]

Published on 27/03/2019 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Agence judiciaire de l'Etat
Alain Eymery
Commission bancaire de l'Afrique centrale
Credit du Nord
Edgard Anicet Mboumbou Miyakou
Eliane Houlette
Epargne et Developpement Gabon
GKA & associes
Guido Santullo
Jacques-Henri Loizeau
Jean-Claude Kenmeugni
Jean-Pierre Louvet
Parquet national financier
Patrick Klugman
Tribunal de Paris
Union gabonaise de banques

Gabon
Libreville on edge as French investigators examine Santullo affair emails

France has questioned former associates of the late Italian businessman Guido Santullo at Switzerland's request. The Swiss authorities have since 2018 been investigating the practices of Santullo's construction company Sericom, and have handed over a large number of documents to the French authorities.

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France, Gabon
French courts speed up Santullo probe

While in Switzerland the investigation into alleged bribery of Gabonese officials by Sericom, a construction firm founded by Guido Santullo, is well under way, France, acting on Gabonese lawsuits, has just summoned several former associates of the late Italian businessman.

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Gabon, Switzerland
Santullo family remain in banking limbo

Guido Santullo's family is trying to have at least one of his Swiss accounts, all of which have been frozen since 2018, released. This request was just rejected by the Swiss justice system, which is investigating corruption allegedly committed by the Italian construction contractor in Gabon.

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Gabon
Swiss inquiry into alleged Santullo backhanders takes on international dimension

After four years of Swiss investigations into the payments allegedly made by construction firm Sericom to senior Gabonese officials, the Office of the Attorney General is seeking assistance from other national jurisdictions. For its part, the Santullo family is still trying to unfreeze its accounts, but so far in vain.

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Gabon
Gabon succeeds in having arbitration forcing it to pay 90bn CFA francs to Santullo annulled

In 2019 Gabon was ordered by a Paris arbitration panel to pay the equivalent of €137m in unpaid invoices to the late Guido Santullo's Sericom construction group. On Tuesday, the country managed to have that arbitration overturned arguing that the Italian contractor had obtained its contracts by paying Gabonese officials.

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Jacques-Henri Loizeau
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