On Wednesday December 24, 2025, the former minister Gabonese Tourism official was placed under arrest warrant, accused of the acts of embezzlement of public funds, for more than 10 billion CFA francs, intended for the development of the Gabonese tourism sector, according to the first investigative items.

The former Minister of Tourism was arrested on 16 last December. Numerous and serious irregularities would have been detected. on the accounting and financial records of the ministerial department under its guardianship. Before his arrest on 16 December last, Pascal Ogowè Siffon had already been briefly under house arrest at the end of last October and banned to leave Gabonese territory.