Moroccan Authorities Probe Macron’s Ex-Aide Benalla’s Company in Foreign Exchange Investigation

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Moroccan Authorities Probe Macron's Ex-Aide Benalla's Company in Foreign Exchange Investigation

Instra Conseil, a company allegedly owned by Alexandre Benalla according to Mediapart and several other media, would have been scrutinized by the Office of Foreign Exchange. This company is based in Marrakech and would have been used for payments in the Russian contracts affair.

According to Jeune Afrique: "The Moroccan Office of Foreign Exchange has combed through the accounts of about ten companies. Among them, Instra Conseil, owned by Alexandre Benalla and based in Marrakech. The former mission officer of Emmanuel Macron’s office created this company on November 2, 2018."

Medias24 goes further and claims that this is a control operation following "suspicious fund movements".

It should be noted that it was through this company that Benalla would have received for one of the contracts concluded with the billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov the sum of 353,000 euros, transferred from the account of France Close Protection. Officially, this would be a protection contract.

However, it should be noted that this is not the only control currently carried out by the Office of Foreign Exchange, there would be about ten of them, and the entity would do hundreds, even thousands, per year.

According to the website Charika.ma, the business activity of Instra Conseil would be: business management service provider (export security consulting, training), consulting and economic and strategic intelligence. And it would be a SARL with a sole shareholder. Benalla?