Hyacinthe Ingani is certainly not just a pharmacist. This former student of the pharmacy institute of the Free University of Brussels is, above all, a deputy and member of the central committee of the PCT and the brother of Minister Inès INGANI.
Hyacinthe Ingani headed the Council of the Order of Pharmacists for 14 years, from 2004 to 2018. He was replaced in this position by Jean-Charles-Claude ONGOLI. A long reign that is, in reality, prolonged by the control he maintains over UBIPHARM-CONGO and a cascade of companies linked to this network.
According to Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, UBIPHARM has existed in Congo since 1993. A legal insertion filed among the minutes of Maître Aude Jasmine ONGOLY IKORA in the African Week of August 2023 specifies that UBIPHARM CONGO is a multi-personal limited company with capital of two billion two hundred and eighty million FCFA.
No entry in the official journal confirms the registration of the UBIPHARM CONGO in 1993.
It is also impossible to know the shareholding and the members of the board of directors—an opacity that raises questions about the possible direct involvement of the presidential family.
The general director of UbiPharm Congo is David Appolinaire BEMBA, but its chairman of the board of directors is Hyacinthe INGANI.
The UBIPHARM CONGO network completely infiltrates the national order of Congolese pharmacists. The successors, Jean Charles Claude ONGOLI and Jagger MPANDZO are all members and directors of UBIPHARM. Philippe Ludovic Ambeto, from the LUPHA laboratory and the Cristale pharmacy, is a member of UbiPharm.
UBIPHARM CONGO is a director of UBIPHARM — turnover of 305,000 euros in 2021 —, DII DEVELOPPEMENT INFORMATIQUE INTERNATIONAL (DII SA) — turnover of 3.25 million euros in 2021 — and GESCA — turnover of 3.65 million euros in 2021, three French companies.
UBIPHARM Congo reported 371,000 euros in turnover, according to the 2022 social accounts of the UBIPHARM group.
All the African and Malagasy companies in the group buy their goods from the company PLANETPHARMA — turnover of 778 million euros in 2022 — managed by Gerard Mangoua and Hervé, Raymond, Kohgba Guessennd — of which Hyacinthe INGANI is one of the directors.
PHARMAFINANCE SA is the result of the alliance of 161 Ivorian private pharmacists, previously shareholders of LABOREX Côte d’Ivoire, who decided in 1990 to take charge of supplying the private medicine market in Côte d’Ivoire according to what you can read on their website.
