According to Radio France international, Telephone tapping reveals the names of the French socialists Manuel Valls, Dominique-Strauss Khan, Stéphane Fouks and Cédric Lewandowski in the Orion Oil affair, named after the Congolese oil group headed by the Congolese businessman, Lucien Ebata . The key is the shadow of hidden election campaign funding, or a possible IMF lobbying operation for the benefit of the Congo.
The newspaper Liberation reveals “a possible misappropriation of Congolese oil revenues, hundreds of millions of euros which have not been paid to the public treasury of Brazzaville”, states Liberation.
The newspaper reports that “the entourage of Manuel Valls, a former French prime minister, is suspected of having solicited Ebata to finance his presidential campaign of 2017”, when the latter presented himself in the socialist primary election after the renunciation of the outgoing president, François Hollande, to stand for his own succession.
The communicator of Havas (A french business group owned by billionaire Vincent Bolloré) , Stéphane Fouks is at the heart of this new scandal. On the basis of judicial telephone tapping, Liberation cites in particular a conversation between Lucien Ebata and his wife, during which the leader of Orion Oil “speaks (…) of a financing of the campaign of Manuel Valls (…) possibly up to 2 million euros”, which the former Prime Minister describes in Liberation as “fanciful declarations.”
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, Liberation also reveals “the trace of a payment of 800,000 euros, made for the benefit of a partner of DSK (…) 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, “the principle of a loan agreement” of 448 million dollars between the IMF and the Republic of Congo was announced.
Lucien Ebata was then doubly “file S” by two French intelligence services (hence the wiretapping cited by Liberation). Those embarrassing “files S” were then “deleted.” The newspaper, finally, details several meetings 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 be intervened” for this purpose.