Nicole Evelyne Mavré-Gigault, 73 years old in 2024, chose the sun of Sugarland, Texas, USA, for her old age. In her property worth nearly a million USD, the Congolese of French origin, whose birth in January 1951 was announced by telegram in the columns of Le Figaro, seems far from family affairs. However, she officially continues to exercise mandates over the family companies and the inheritance of her father, Robert-Léon Mavré-Gigault, and her mother, Simone Patard, daughter of Mr. Patard, an industrialist in Savigny.
Robert-Léon Mavré-Gigault (1921-2000) and Simone Patard were French pharmacists and settlers.
In 1948, they settled in Middle Congo, a colony in French Equatorial Africa, where they are said to have opened the country’s first pharmacy.
The AEF archives mention a pharmacy deposit by Mr. Touzelet Gilbert, manager of the French West African Company (CFAO) in Dolisie on February 13, 1948, and the qualification of Mr. Dhenain François to open a pharmacy in Pointe-Noire, Middle Congo, on March 4, 1948. In 1950, Simone Patard Mavré-Gigault sold her pharmacy located at 138 Boulevard Grenelle in Paris 15th to Madame Gaillard Suzanne, wife Joubert Jean, for an unspecified amount.
On July 11, 1953, the Mavré family and Myriam Mollard née Le Bel, a pharmacist in Pointe-Noire, created the Société Equatoriale Pharmaceutique (SEP) in Brazzaville, a wholesale distributor with a capital of 600,000 FCFA at the time still the single FCFA with a value of 1 FCFA = 2 French francs, or around three million euros in 2023. We do not know the subscribers’ names who fully paid up the 600 cash shares issued.
Ms. Myriam Mollard was appointed President and General Director at the end of the general meeting.
In the colonial society of Middle Congo, Mr. Robert Mavré is a minor notable. In 1957, he was the titular representative of pharmacists. In 1958 and 1959, expert on colonial customs on pharmaceutical products. In 1962, two years after independence, Mavré Robert, first vice-president of the Lions Club, was elevated to the rank of knight of the Congolese order of merit by President Fulbert Youlou alongside Babinet (Michel), consulting insurer, «Lions Club» Brazzaville; Baujet (René), director of the Central Bank, member of the «Lions Club» office in Brazzaville; Normand (Jean-Charles), architect, vice-president of the «Lions Club» in Brazzaville and Trottier (André-René), director of the National Bank for Commerce and Industry in Brazzaville, member of the «Lions Club» office.
On March 10, 1965, Order No. 1011 on the pharmacy authorization granted in 1956 to Mr. Mavré Robert was validated by the revolutionary regime of President Massamba Débat. Pascal Lissouba is prime minister, and Simon Gokana, [father of Denis Auguste Marie Gokana, boss of AOGC and hydrocarbons advisor to Denis Sassou Nguesso], minister of public health, population, and social affairs. There is no trace of pharmacy authorization for Mr. Mavré in the official journals of the AEF for the year 1956. In May 1966, at the study of Maître Gnali-Gomes Marcel-Roger [father of the infamous lawyer Vincent Gomes], notary Mr. Mavré sold for an unknown amount and to an unknown buyer [perhaps the S.E.P] the pharmacy Mavré Morelle Rigal and Mavré Pharmaciens. The colonists have taken root.
Between 1983 and 1996, the Mavré family and its associates created a network of companies in Congo, France, and Switzerland. Essentially, this involved acquiring hotel franchises and SCIs and consolidating them into a holding company in Switzerland. This particular structure of the Mavré Empire is characteristic of financial arrangements for repatriation and money laundering.
However, without access to financial and banking records, we cannot confirm that this is the case here.
What we do know, however, is that in France, the companies ASOGI France and Holsi France have a turnover of at least zero euros, respectively, for the last four financial years. ASOGI France has equity of three million euros and HOLSI of two million euros. The Holsi holding is the oldest company, created in 1996 in Switzerland, and the majority shareholder of Holsi France.
Through a tangle of partners and companies, Holsi France manages the French assets of the Mavré family, including the Hôtel de Gerland in Lyon, SCI Brumi at the same address as the Hôtel Gerland in Lyon, and DAMALINE – IBIS close to Meaux –. Nicole Mavré-Gigault owns SCIP SIROCO in Brazzaville, a shareholder in France of SCI Brumi.
246 rue Marcel Mérieux, 69007 LYON, you can’t make it up, is the address of SCI Brumi and the Hôtel de Gerland — turnover of nine hundred thousand and sixty-nine euros in 2020 —, the main assets of the Mavré. Marcel Mérieux is the name of the father of Alain Mérieux, the founder of Laboratoires Mérieux, infamous for the contaminated blood affair.
The chronology of company creations between 1983 and 1996 fits perfectly into this period. The main wholesale distributor in Congo-Brazzaville, the Equatorial Pharmaceutical Company SEP, would have participated in the sale of French blood stocks in Africa, as we hypothesize with Laborex.
As early as 1983, Professor Luc Montagnier, Professors Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Jean-Claude Chermann identified the infectious agent and the contamination by blood. After the delisting decision by Minister Laurent Fabius in 1985, blood products from Mérieux laboratories, almost unsaleable in France, generated an immense profit in Congo.
The Mavré would have laundered this profit through investments in real estate via SCIs and the hotel industry.
In 1996, just after the Mitterrand-Chirac alternation, the holding company was created in Switzerland to protect millions from injunctions for compensation from potential victims. The compensation fund for French victims and their families was estimated at 17 billion francs or 2.5 billion euros.
Around 2018, the head pharmacist of the Mavré-SEP pharmacy, the late Alex Ramel, was also the plenipotentiary ambassador of the Order of Malta in the Republic of Congo. His predecessor, Philippe d’Alverny, husband of Christiane Chodron de Courcel, cousin of Madame Bernadette Chirac, is a director of the company GROUPEMENT FORESTIER DE CONTRÔLE and of the SCI DE L’INSTITUT DE LA MAISON BOURBON. His successor, Henri Nsika, is a French teacher at Durham Public Schools, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
Malta is a financial hub for Congolese oil companies.
In the Russo-Congolese Gunvor scandal, it was via Malta that Asperbras paid $17.05 million in bribes to Maxime Gandzion, son of Prosper Gandzion, the minister of education in the Youlou government who decorated Robert Mavré in 1957.
The Gandzions own several properties in Miami, USA with an estimated total value of over 3 million USD. They own 1000 BRICKELL PLZ 4703 Miami, FL, worth $552,500.00, and 1100 S MIAMI AVE 2007, MIAMI, FL, worth $583,500. 1051 Northeast 89th Street Miami, FL 33138, was purchased for $100 in 2018 from the «Gandzion Family Office,» OMBIMA LLC, then resold for $2,150,000 to J & L Land Investments LLC.
What role did the officer and then ambassador of the Order of Malta, leader of the SEP, Alex Michel Ramel, play in allowing Gandzion to receive the millions of Asperbras?
Who owns the company to which the Gandzions sold the Florida property of the Family Office?
Questions are currently unanswered
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