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Emmanuel Freudenthal

Aug 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo

While the #Gabon coup is ongoing, a quick reminder that Ali #Bongo and his clan currently own real estate in the US, Canada and France, worth US$40 millions.

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(properties ownership checked at publication date)

In Washington DC, the Bongo family and allies own seven properties worth US$4.2 million.

This includes a $1.5m townhouse purchased with cash by the head of the Supreme Court, Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo.

She hung up when I called her.

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occrp.org/en/investigati…

In Montréal, a $2.6m building is owned by a Gabonese parliamentarian and the head of the telecommunications authority, who is married to Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo.

She also hung up when I called.

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journaldemontreal.com/2017/06/03/par…

There's at least $35m worth of #Bongo properties in France. We tallied them for our Nouvel Obs story but did not include the names in the article as they were already known.
Properties can be found here:

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frestate.bird.bg
nouvelobs.com/justice/202207…

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The head of the #Gabon coup, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, bought three property in Maryland in 2015 and 2018.

Total cost: over US$1 million, paid without mortgage.

He stills owns them.

Our 2020 story published @OCCRP with @Kzalan @Roshanakt

occrp.org/en/investigati…

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Remember the World Bank study that cut water from poor households in Nairobi, just to see if they'd pay?

I requested its ethical approval (IRB). The Bank carefully avoided giving me a straight answer so that I couldn't appeal (Kafka was employee of the month in Oct).

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I appealed & appealed. The Committee ignored my complaint, so I skipped them and went to the Appeal Board.

Yesterday, the Board stated "Bank and the AIC fell far short of what is required by their own policies and procedures in handling the request."

Sounds good? Not quite.
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The Appeal Board is now sending me back to the previous step (the AI Committee), who had ignored my complaints.

This Committee often uses a loophole in the Bank's policy: the "prerogative".

They can refuse to disclose any document if it doesn't vibe with them. Handy!

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