Condemned by Belgian justice to 20 months of suspended sentence, to 12,000 euros fine and confiscation of 300,000 euros, Mariama Camara, Guinean Minister of Agriculture, rejects accusations of corruption against him.
Interviewed exclusively by Financial Afrik, Mariama Camara wants to be clear: “but I do not know [laughs …] I saw something on the net. Like you, I saw that there was my name. But do not recognize me in it, “she says.
The name of the Minister of Agriculture is cited in the judgment of the Brussels Criminal Court in the Socfin case.
According to the judgment delivered Friday, June 30 in the first instance, businessman Hubert Fabre, 66, has set up a “pattern of corruption” on the basis of overbilling and kickbacks bribes via a screen company to African dignitaries.
The high Guinean personality would have received $ 4.2 million bribe Socfin through this process. And while she was General Manager of the Guinean Society of Oil Palm and Rubber (Soguipah), a public company she will lead for 30 years and which earned her to be called Mariama Soguipah.
The Guinean executive is splashed at the top by this case because, according to the revelations of the Belgian newspaper lecho.be, the Guinean Prime Minister, Kassory Fofana, appointed last May, would have benefited from a payment of about 50 000 euros .
Hubert Fabri, a sprawling man
Chairman of Socfinaf SA, Société Financière des Caoutchoucs SA, Sofinasia SA, Bereby-Finance SA, Centrages SA, Immobilière de la Pépinière SA, Induservices, Liberian Agricultural Co, Sockin KCD, Socfinco, of Socfinde SA, Management Company for Rubber and Oilseeds, CEO of Société Anonyme Forestière et Agricole, Hubert Fabri collects the presidencies and, recently, the convocations of the Belgian justice. Chairman of Palmeraies of Cameroon, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cambodge SA, Independent Director of Bolloré, Financière de l’Odet SA, he is also an independent director of Société Industrielle & Financière de Artois SA and President of Plantation Socfinaf Ghana Ltd.
The businessman also sits on the board of directors of Nord-Sumatra Investments SA, Compagnie du Cambodge SA, Financière de l’Odet SA, Champ de Mars Investissements SA, Financière Nord-Sumatra SA, PT Socfin Indonesia, SAFA Cameroon SA, SCI Champ de Mars Investment, Socfin Agricultural Co. Ltd, Socfindo, Cameroon Company of Palmeraies SA, Sud Comoe Rubber, Terrasia, Financière Moncey, La Forestière Equatoriale SA , of Société Industrielle & Financière of Artois SA, of Okomu Oil Palm Co, of Plantations des Terres Rouges SA and Société des Rubbers of Grand-Bereby.
