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After investing in flour, YCAP turns to high-end real estate

Six months after announcing it would acquire the Forafric milling company from the Benjelloun family, the Paris-based investment fund YCAP [...]

Published on 09/07/2015 at 04:30 GMT

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Benjelloun
Continental Milling Morocco
Fonds Gabonais d'Investissements Strategiques
Forafric
Forafric Group
Forafric SA
Grandes semouleries du Maroc
Grands
Hicham Mohsine
Lotfi El Arabi
Maymouna Food
Michael Elbaz
Mimouna Luxury Properties
Mouad
Moulins du Tensift
Yariv Elbaz
YC Luxury Properties
YCAP

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Private jets, offshore fields, football, magazines: the presidential palace's untraceable holdings

A string of offshore companies with no identified owner have been linked to transactions within the presidential couple's entourage. All were incorporated by the same financiers who also happen to be associates of Gabon's sovereign wealth fund.

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Gabonese President Ali Bongo getting off his plane during a visit to Beijing, 2018.

Morocco
Tea "sultan" Hamid Raji to serve up couscous

The king of Sultan teas, Hamid Raji, has taken on the highly-competitive couscous grain and pasta market.

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In Focus | Gabon
How Ycap became the Gabonese sovereign fund's favorite asset manager

After having been sanctioned by France's financial markets authority, financier Yariv Elbaz has succeeded in making a comeback in Gabon with his fund Ycap, which has become the main financial partner of the country's sovereign fund.

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Franco-Moroccan financier Yariv Elbaz at the 2014 New York Forum Africa.

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The Bongo family's sky-high surprise

Gabon's presidential family had until now been blissfully unaware that it does not actually own the two Boeings and Bombardier Global that it uses to jet around. After recently learning otherwise, it is having trouble working out who does control the planes.

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The Boeing 737 registering as P4-BBJ, frequently used by Sylvia Bongo.

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Continental Milling Morocco
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Forafric
Forafric Group
Forafric SA
Grandes semouleries du Maroc
Grands
Hicham Mohsine
Lotfi El Arabi
Maymouna Food
Michael Elbaz
Mimouna Luxury Properties
Mouad
Moulins du Tensift
Yariv Elbaz
YC Luxury Properties
YCAP

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Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

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After investing in flour, YCAP turns to high-end real estate

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How Ycap became the Gabonese sovereign fund's favorite asset manager

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Property specialist Khalid Assari joins Forafric

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