Jean-Paul Pigasse

Jean-Paul Pigasse was born on 26 July 1939 in Toulouse, France.

Pigasse wrote under the pseudonym of 'Favilla' for Les Echos from 1978 to 1984.[1] He is the author of five non-fiction books.

He is the owner of ADIAC, a communications firm which publishes the daily newspaper Les Dépêches de Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo.[2][3] He is friends with Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso.[2][3]

In 2002, Tracfin realised that in 1999–2000, he had received 2.2 million Francs (around 340,000 Euros) from an offshore company called Socoil.[2] Out of this sum, 1.2 million Francs were transferred to French businessman André Tarallo as a payback for a prior loan.[2]

His wife is a cousin of French businessman Alfred Sirven.[2] He lives in Brazzaville, Congo.[3]

• La difficulté d'informer : vérités sur la presse économique (Paris: Alain Moreau, 1975).
• Les sept portes du futur : des clés pour déchiffrer l'avenir (Paris: Albin Michel, 1981).
• Le bouclier d'Europe (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1992).
• La France et sa défense (with Jacques Baumel, Paris: Forgues, 1994).
• Congo, chronique d'une guerre annoncée : 5 juin-15 octobre 1997 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997).
• Le dossier noir de la presse française (Paris: Forgues, 1998).