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Financier Linked to Crans‑Montana Owners Accused of Arms Trafficking and Money Laundering

Victims' lawyer lodged complaints asking prosecutors to consider whether the financier's companies secretly supplied weapons, hired mercenary instructors, hid funds.

Overview

  • Complaints have been filed with prosecutors in Sion, Bern and Paris accusing Daniel Donnet‑Monay and firms he controls of illegal arms trafficking, unauthorized mercenary‑style services in Africa, and money laundering.
  • Donnet‑Monay's fiduciary Aags provided a €20,000 loan in 2015 that helped Jacques and Jessica Moretti open Le Constellation and managed the Morettis' fiscal affairs until records were reportedly lost in an IT failure at the end of 2024.
  • The filings present company documents that allege Algemira SA marketed military equipment such as grenades, blinding agents, optical sights and heavy drones and that Belarusian instructors were sent to Côte d'Ivoire to train forces on 'Cayman' armored vehicles.
  • A 17 April 2020 brokerage contract in the dossier reportedly shows commercial ties between Donnet‑Monay's firms and former French gendarme Robert Montoya, who is under separate inquiry in France for suspected facilitation of crimes against humanity.
  • Prosecutors must now decide whether to open formal cross‑border investigations, and if pursued the probes could examine whether inter‑company loans, identical invoice exchanges and inflated accounts helped conceal illicit flows that supported the Morettis' rapid business rise and affect victims' efforts for accountability.