The Breton industrial Vincent Bolloré was placed in custody in the premises of the judicial police of Nanterre this Tuesday morning, within the framework of an open judicial investigation notably for corruption and concerning the conditions of acquisition of two port terminals in Africa.
The billionaire, also first
shareholder of Vivendi, is implicated in the context of a judicial investigation, opened notably for corruption and concerning the conditions of acquisition, in 2010, of two container terminals operated by the Bolloré group in Lomé, Togo, and in Conakry, Guinea.
According to the newspaper Le Monde, which revealed the information, magistrates suspect the leaders of the group to have used their communication subsidiary Havas to facilitate the coming to power of African leaders. They would have provided under-billed consulting and communication missions. Their objective was apparently to obtain the port concessions of the lucrative container terminals.
A search had already taken place in April 2016 at the Bolloré Tower in Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine), headquarters of the Bolloré Africa Logistics group, particularly in the offices of Vincent Bolloré, then CEO of the group.
