AOGC had long been tied to Denis Gokana oil advisor to Congo-B President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and then head of the national oil company (AC Vol 50 No 21 Brazzaville counts on France and the IMF)...
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The companies and officials who benefitted from the arrangement include: Denis Gokana oil advisor to the President and then head of Congo-B's national oil company; AOGC; Petro Congo a company part-owned by AOGC; and Kontinent Congo owned by Yaya Moussa a former IMF representative in Congo and Jose Veiga (AC Vol 48 No 15 Can't pay won't pay)...
The real decisions over how far Brazzaville should placate the IMF will be taken by Sassou himself his son Denis Christel 'Kiki' – deputy managing director of SNPC and member of parliament for the president's home town of Oyo – and trusted advisers such as Denis Gokana and new deputy prime minister Firmin Ayessa...
Question marks now hang over the future of his friend Blaise Elenga also implicated in the scandals of 2007 and the regime’s chief oil strategist Denis Gokana President of SNPC and owner of Africa Oil and Gas...
The Congolese signatory was Denis Gokana SNPC's Chief Executive who was identified during the 2005 controversies as heading shell companies that diverted SNPC oil revenue...
Denis Gokana the head of the national oil company the Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo is a key presidential ally while the lavish overseas shopping habits of Sassou himself and his son Denis Christel – head of SNPC’s trading arm – have been widely reported abroad...
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It was managed by Lo Fong Hung Veronica Fung and allies of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Denis Gokana and Blaise Elenga...
A London court judgment in 2005 found that AOGC was owned by Denis Gokana head of Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo who had used AOGC payments to which Denis Christel was a party to stop Congolese state creditors from identifying oil revenue as state assets...
Cotrade sold oil below the market price to Sphynx Bermuda and African Oil and Gas Corporation shell companies headed by the Special Advisor to the President Denis Gokana then Director of SNPC...
One trading vehicle Africa Oil and Gas is directly owned by the SNPC Chairman Denis Gokana...