Barely re-elected to the presidency of Fégafoot, Pierre-Alain Mounguengui was placed in police custody in the sex scandal that shook the world of Gabonese football.
Just re-elected at the head of the Gabonese Football Federation (Fégafoot), Pierre-Alain Mounguengui was arrested last Thursday after a summons by the General Directorate of Counter-Interference and Military Security (DGCISM) which follows revelations of The Guardian newspaper, last December, concerning a huge sex scandal that shook Gabonese football.
Several personalities must now respond to justice, including Serge Mombo, former president of the Estuary football league, one of the main defendants in this case which has gone up to the Palais du bord de mer. numerous rapes, the former trainer Patrick Assoumou Eyi, has been imprisoned since December.
If Fégafoot denied having been aware of the sexual assaults, the Guardian investigation affirmed that the actions of Patrick Assoumou Eyi were in fact a secret to no one. And while the President of Gabon, Ali Bongo, had asked for the opening of an investigation, the Palace of the seaside had asked Pierre-Alain Mounguengui, formerly supported by Ali Bongo, not to present himself to his own succession. . Less than a week before being arrested, Mounguengui had succeeded in being re-elected at the head of Fégafoot. He then openly challenged the Gabonese president by dedicating his victory to him.
Justice, then the CAS
Already, in the corridors of Fégafoot, we heard that the days of Pierre-Alain Mounguengui at the head of the federation were numbered. The president of the body is indeed accused, in addition to the sex scandal that has plagued the federation, of mismanagement of funds. But it was unthinkable for things to go so fast.
Arrested, Pierre-Alain Mounguengui was placed in police custody and spent two days imprisoned in Libreville. It remains to be seen what fate will be reserved for the president of Fégafoot. If, at first, it is to justice that the Gabonese football boss will have to answer, he could well also be ejected from his seat. His competitor, the unfortunate Jérôme Efong Nzolo, has indeed lodged an appeal after losing to Mounguengui, whom he accuses of “flagrant irregularities likely to call into question the final result”.
And the arrest of Mounguengui could, according to the relatives of the president of Fégafoot, have been accelerated by the requests of Nzolo, whose wife is part of the… DGCISM. The entourage of the boss of Fégafoot denounces a “political” arrest. There is no doubt that after his legal troubles, Mounguengui will then have to defend himself before the administrative court for sport (TAS) to hope to save his place.