Telephone tapping reveals the names of the socialists Manuel Valls, Dominique-Strauss Khan, Stéphane Fouks and Cédric Lewandowski in the Orion Oil affair, named after this Congolese oil group headed by the Canadian-Congolese businessman, Lucien Ebata . At the end of the day, the shadow of an occult financing of an electoral campaign, or of a possible operation of lobbying with the IMF, for the benefit of the Congo.
It’s the newspaper again Release which reveals “a possible embezzlement of Congolese oil revenues, hundreds of millions of euros which have not been paid to the public treasury of Brazzaville”States Release.
Which daily reports that “ the entourage of Manuel Valls is suspected of having solicited (Lucien Ebata) to finance his 2017 presidential campaign”when the former French Prime Minister presented himself in the socialist primary election after the renunciation of the outgoing president, François Hollande, to present himself to his own succession. “At the heart of this story, the powerful communicator of Havas, Stéphane Fouks”completein One Release.
On the basis of judicial telephone tapping, this newspaper cites in particular a conversation between Lucien Ebata and his wife, during which the manager of Orion Oil “speaks (…) of funding for Manuel Valls’ campaign (…) possibly up to 2 million euros”which the former Prime Minister describes in Release of “fanciful statements” (and we will point out here that with his wife, Lucien Ebata speaks of Manuel Valls as his ” young brother “)…
After having also related the genesis of the relations forged, via the communicator Stéphane Fouks, between Lucien Ebata and the former director general of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, known as DSK, Release also reveals “the trace of a payment of 800,000 euros, made for the benefit of a DSK partner (…) on April 11, 2018 (…) from a Congolese account of Orion”in payment of a “contract (…) dated March 6, 2018”and recalls that, on April 19, 2018, it was announced “the principle of a loan agreement” of $448 million between the IMF and the Republic of Congo.
It being specified that Lucien Ebata was then doubly “file S” by two French intelligence services (hence the telephone tapping cited by Release), it being also pointed out that these embarrassing “S sheets” were then “removed”this newspaper, finally, details several appointments and conversations between the Canadian-Congolese businessman and Cédric Lewandowski, and adds that the former chief of staff of the then Minister of Defense, Jean-Yves Le Drian, “would have intervened” for this purpose.
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Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock have as their primary objective “to support the peace process”highlighted Le Figarowhile considering that the talks in South Africa, then in Kenya in November, resemble “to a surrender”.
This joint Franco-German visit is therefore “above all humanitarian, while the conflict has displaced two million people and Tigray remains under the threat of famine”sighs this daily, pointing out that Paris and Berlin “thus financed to the tune of 28 million euros the transport of 50,000 tonnes of wheat offered by Ukraine to Ethiopia and Somalia”, complete Le Figaro.
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The totem of retirement
The pension reform, in France, the French are still against… According to an Odoxa survey for Le Figaro, 52% of French people are opposed to the pension reform project, against only 29% who are in favor of it, and 18% who consider themselves insufficiently informed about this reform. But on the decline to 64 years of the legal retirement age, there is no picture! 62% of French people are opposed to it, against 37% who are in favor of it. Even more worrying for the government, 2 out of 3 French people find “ justified » the inter-union strike day next Thursday against the pension reform, against only 1 in 3 who do not find it “ not justified ». And those polled warn, if France “ was to experience major blockages because of this strike »more than 6 out of 10 French people believe that it would then be the government that would “main responsible”against just under 4 out of 10 who would blame the unions.
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