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ECAIR - Equatorial Congo Airlines (LC, Brazzaville) says the seizure of one of its two B757-200s, HB-JJE (msn 27219),
at Paris CDG on Saturday, April 11,
is an 'illegal' act adding that it intends to seek damages.
According to the La Lettre du Continent magazine, Congolese businessman François Odzali successfully obtained a Paris court ruling claiming the Congolese government, as owners of the airline,
still owed him EUR70 million (USD76.3 million) for the destruction of an industrial complex during the Republic of Congo's civil war in 1997
and for non-payment of electrification work undertaken for the subsequent government.
Though the aircraft is wet-leased from PrivatAir (Switzerland) (PV, Geneva), it is now the fourth seizure of an African airline's aircraft this year following those of Air Algérie (AH, Algier), CEIBA Intercontinental (C2, Malabo),
and Force Aérienne Gabonaise (Libreville) (Gabonese Presidential Jet)/ http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=113540 .
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