Laboratoires Biocare: Claudia Sassou’s monopoly?

According to Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, Jacques Bandelia manages the company. However, it was impossible to find information about the manager of the only pharmaceutical factory operating in the Republic of Congo.

What we know is that the factory is located in the Kintélé village, Djiri, at the same address as the Okiessi mineral water packaging factory, owned by NG ENTREPRISE, the company of the President’s daughter, Claudia Sassou Nguesso, directed by Médard Limbouazeni.

Pascal Daumain, the former general director from 2009 to 2018, was also the treasurer of the Groupement des boteilleurs du Congo. At this stage of our investigations, it is impossible to confirm that the Biocare laboratory occupies the same premises as the NG Entreprise water plant. However, an order for a dosing station by the French company Ekope and implemented by Biocare is of concern.

Ekope is managed by two French people, Abdelkader Khadir and Cyriaque Clairon. It turns out that the latter, Cyriaque Clairon, describes himself as «former general manager of a mineral water company in Congo Brazzaville» without specifying the company’s name.

The tangle of companies involving the two partners is complex. According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr. Otman BOUDINA directed the laboratory from 2012 to 2014.

The current director of financial and accounting affairs at Biocare, Mr. Guy Biansoumba, is also the head of the finance department of COGEMO clinic, a health establishment headed by Dr. Philippe BANDZOUZI, a general practitioner at APHP Kremlin-Bicêtre in France.

The Laboratoire Biocare brand exists as a subsidiary of the BIOCARE Group, an Algerian pharmaceutical company created by Drs Mohammed Redha HABBES and Samira HABBES.

Would the Biocare laboratory be part of Claudia Sassou Nguesso’s NG Entreprise conglomerate?