Ports africains : Vincent Bolloré se pourvoit en cassation
Vincent Bolloré, charged with corruption for the fraudulent awarding of port management contracts in Togo and Guinea, has filed an appeal with the Court of Cassation, France's highest court, in an attempt to avoid a trial, his lawyer said on Friday.
Céline Astolfe, lawyer for Vincent Bolloré with Pierre Cornut-Gentille and Jean Veil, confirmed to AFP this appeal to the Court of Cassation which had been mentioned last week, after the rejection of an appeal by the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal.
"The entire procedure must be cancelled" because it is "perfectly unfair, harms the rights of the defense and constitutes an indelible attack on the presumption of innocence," Me Olivier Baratelli, associate of Me Astolfe and another defense lawyer, told AFP at the time.
Last week, the Paris Court of Appeal only granted Bolloré's camp the removal of certain documents or passages from the file, but largely upheld the legal proceedings against the industrialist.
Seized since 2013, Parisian financial judges suspect the Bolloré group of having used the political consulting activities of its subsidiary Euro RSCG (now Havas) to fraudulently secure the management of the ports of Lomé and Conakry for the benefit of another of its subsidiaries, Bolloré Africa Logistics, formerly called SDV, at the time of presidential elections in 2010 in these countries.
To avoid a lengthy criminal trial, Vincent Bolloré, one of the wealthiest people in France, along with Gilles Alix, CEO of the Bolloré group at the time, and Jean-Philippe Dorent, international director at Havas, admitted the facts in 2021 during a plea bargain hearing, and accepted a fine of 375,000 euros.
The court had refused to approve it, sending the case back for further investigation.
The 73-year-old Breton industrialist has been ardently contesting this procedural setback ever since.
The Bolloré group had benefited from a judicial agreement in the public interest (CJIP), paying a fine of 12 million euros in exchange for the abandonment of proceedings.
In June 2024, the national financial prosecutor's office requested a trial for active corruption of a foreign public official against Mr. Bolloré and Mr. Alix, for breach of trust for the latter and for complicity in breach of trust for Mr. Bolloré and Mr. Dorent.
"Vincent Bolloré will have to appear in court to be tried. Sherpa and Anticor welcome this new victory," said Jérôme Karsenti, the lawyer for these NGOs fighting against corruption and economic crimes, last week.
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BOLLORE
C’est le propriétaire de tous les médias racistes de France
Cnews
BFM
Et autres
Il faut le bouter hors d’Afrique
Bollore est un raciste notoire. Anti noir et anti musulman. Avec la fortune qu’il a amassé en Afrique il finance l’extrême droite en France et le lobby juif afin de dénigrer l’islam et chasser les étranger de France.
Tous les africains doivent le combattre avec ses intérêts dans nos pays.
bollore l extremiste , le raciste , le facho , va t en de chez nous , on a pas besoin de toi en afrique
ohhh c'est AFP..........les primitifs vont baver
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