Bolloré

Quelque 145 Camerounais ont demandé mardi à la justice française de contraindre le groupe Bolloré à fournir des documents pour établir ses liens avec la Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) qu'ils accusent d'attenter à leurs droits.

The use of “transfer pricing” to avoid taxation is common among multinationals operating in Africa, depriving low-income governments of badly needed revenue.

A new report by Bread for all, Alliance Sud, and the German Network for Tax Justice has accused Belgian-French multinational Socfin, which operates rubber and palm oil plantations across West Africa, of shifting profits from Africa to Switzerland. The use of “transfer pricing” to avoid taxation is common among multinationals operating in Africa, depriving low-income governments of badly needed revenue.

Le groupe Socfin (détenu à 40% par le groupe Bolloré) transfère des bénéfices issus de la production de matières premières vers Fribourg, un canton suisse à faible fiscalité, selon un nouveau rapport de Pain pour le prochain, Alliance Sud et le Réseau allemand pour la justice fiscale

A new report on the tax strategy of agribusiness corporation Socfin reveals how multinational companies can shift profits from countries where they produce commodities in Africa and Asia to tax havens like Switzerland.

In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of Indigenous Bunong farmers from Mondulkiri in Northeastern Cambodia. In light of recent discussions on the potential and constraints of legal activism, we aim here to highlight entrenched structural factors that can hinder communities in legal challenges to corporate land grabs.

A joint statement issued by 97 Bunong indigenous families in Mondulkiri province expressed disappointment in the Tribunal of Nanterre in France which overruled their complaints concerning 2,386ha of disputed land with French company Bollore. The families from Pech Chreada district’s Bou Sra commune said they would grant lawyers the right to file an appeal in France.

This community of itinerant farmers believes it was robbed of nearly 7,000 hectares of its land when the Cambodian government granted a concession to a joint venture in which the Bolloré group is a stakeholder.

Cette affaire illustre la difficulté des peuples autochtones à faire valoir leurs droits face à des multinationales.

The court of Nanterre has just dismissed 80 Bunong farmers who accused the French group of illegally appropriating their land in Cambodia. Ten years ago, Noam Léandri from Angers was commissioned by the International Federation for Human Rights to produce a report on the subject. He looks back.

Pour le leader communautaire Michel Essonga : « Il est difficile de comprendre comment Safacam a pu obtenir un certificat Rspo sans changer ses pratiques. Elle viole nos droits fonciers et pollue nos ruisseaux et rivières. Les gens sont intimidés et harcelés. Pourquoi les auditeurs n'ont-ils pas pris nos doléances en considération ? »

The Cambodian farmers who sued the Breton businessman for land grabbing were dismissed by the court of Nanterre.