Son of Late Gabonese Leader Bought Sprawling Real Estate Portfolio While in Public Office

Leaked property data shows he was listed as the owner of an apartment and co-owner of a villa in Dubai in 2023 – reporters confirmed he still owns the villa.

Mombo also bought five properties worth over a million euros in France in 2014 and 2015 through a company registered at the same Bougival mansion owned by Mborantsuo and Andjoua’s SCI, according to company filings. (Mombo’s company was deregistered in March 2026.) It is not clear if they were romantically involved at the time. 

Reporters discovered a previously unreported commercial dispute from 2023 over Mombo’s French properties which, according to the court’s judgement, describes how he and his son had sold shares in their SCI to an “unofficial adviser” in France for just 2,000 euros. The sale was made because Mombo was under investigation in France at the time and wanted to protect his assets, a French commercial court said in its decision on the case. (Reporters were unable to establish whether Mombo was investigated as part of the probe into Mborantsuo.)

The French commercial court decision said: “Mr. Mombo, a Gabonese national and high-ranking civil servant… admits that it was in his interest not to be listed in the SCI’s articles of association,” and said that his unofficial adviser in France had “devised and proposed the subterfuge of transferring shares for €2,000 and changing the company name….Mr. Mombo adds, however, that he was not planning to relinquish his real estate.”

The advisor passed the assets to his own children and then died, the court documents noted. Mombo brought the commercial case in an attempt to recoup the properties, saying that the price of the sale did not reflect its value, but the court dismissed the case as Mombo himself had agreed to the sale at that price.

Neither Mombo nor Mborantsuo responded to requests for comment.