Laurent Gbagbo is at the center of an ongoing affair of 400 million FCFA in the United States. The resident of The Hague prison, in the Netherlands, would have given this sum to Mike Espy, candidate for the 2018 senatorial elections, for a lobbying contract.

The information delivered by Fox news is making waves in Democratic and Republican circles in the United States, but also in Côte d’Ivoire. Laurent Gbagbo reportedly handed over 400 million FCFA to Mike Espy, Democratic candidate for the senatorial elections in Mississippi in March 2011, ie in the midst of the post-election crisis in Côte d’Ivoire.

At the time, Mike Espy was working for an agricultural lobby. He would have received this windfall from the Ivorian cocoa coffee council, under the orders of Laurent Gbagbo, in order to lobby the Obama administration, the UN and the media.

But Mike Espy, who faces Cindy Hyde-Smith in the senatorial in Mississippi, said he terminated the contract because “Côte d’Ivoire had not passed the Smell test”, he says.

But FOX news, which is a channel close to the Republicans, alleges that Mike Espy did indeed work for Laurent Gbagbo until 15 days from the end of the contract, scheduled for 3 months. The television channel advances as proof, the register of agents working for a foreign government consulted at the Ministry of Justice.

If Mike Espy was neck and neck with his opponent before the second round of the senatorial elections on November 27, this case could seriously damage his campaign.

For Laurent Gbagbo’s camp, awaiting the verdict of the International Criminal Court on his acquittal, “This case does not worry us. It has nothing to do with what is happening at the ICC”, BM, an active militant of the Ivorian Popular Front, defended himself to Afrikmag.

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