Jean-Paul Pigasse (born 1939) is a Brazzaville-based French journalist and media proprietor.

Early life

Jean-Paul Pigasse was born on 26 July 1939 in Toulouse, France.

Career

Pigasse wrote under the pseudonym of 'Favilla' for '' Les Echos'' from 1978 to 1984.Jean-Paul Pigasse
Bibliothèque nationale de France He is the author of five non-fiction books. He is the owner of ADIAC, a communications firm which publishes the daily newspaper ''

Les Dépêches de Brazzaville ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'' is a French-language daily newspaper in the Republic of the Congo.Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, ''Congo Brazzaville'', Paris: Le Petit Futé, 2014, p. 6/ref> It is published by ADIAC, owned by Jean-P ...

'' in the Republic of the Congo.La justice enquête sur l'ami du président congolais
''Le Parisien'', April 24, 2002Maria Malagardis
Brazzaville entre plumes et enclume
'' Libération'', February 22, 2013 He is friends with Congolese President

Denis Sassou Nguesso Denis Sassou Nguesso (born 23 November 1943) is a Congolese politician and former military officer. He became president of the Republic of the Congo in 1997. He served a previous term as president from 1979 to 1992. During his first period as ...

. In 2002,

Tracfin Tracfin (''Traitement du renseignement et action contre les circuits financiers clandestins'') is a service of the French Ministry of Finances. It fights money laundering. Tracfin is a unit of French Ministry for Economy, Finance and Industry an ...

realised that in 1999–2000, he had received 2.2 million

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(around 340,000 Euros) from an offshore company called Socoil. Out of this sum, 1.2 million Francs were transferred to French businessman André Tarallo as a payback for a prior loan.

Personal life

His wife is a cousin of French businessman

Alfred Sirven Alfred Sirven (6 January 1927, in Toulouse – 12 February 2005, in Deauville Deauville () is a commune in the Calvados department, Normandy, northwestern France. Major attractions include its harbour, race course, marinas, conference cen ...

. He lives in Brazzaville, Congo.

Bibliography

*''La difficulté d'informer : vérités sur la presse économique'' (Paris: Alain Moreau, 1975). *''Les sept portes du futur : des clés pour déchiffrer l'avenir'' (Paris: Albin Michel, 1981). *''Le bouclier d'Europe'' (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1992). *''La France et sa défense'' (with Jacques Baumel'', Paris: Forgues, 1994). *''Congo, chronique d'une guerre annoncée : 5 juin-15 octobre 1997'' (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997). *''Le dossier noir de la presse française'' (Paris: Forgues, 1998).

References

1939 births Living people Writers from Toulouse People from Brazzaville French journalists 20th-century French newspaper publishers (people) French male journalists Pigasse family {{France-journalist-stub