Once among Madagascar’s most influential businessmen and a close ally of deposed president Andry Rajoelina, Mamy Ravatomanga stands at the centre of one of the island’s most explosive corruption cases.
The 57-year-old tycoon is the most prominent defendant in a trial starting Tuesday in Antananarivo over five Boeing 777s routed to Iran via temporary Malagasy registrations to circumvent multiple US sanctions.
The planes, now registered to Iranian carrier Mahan Air, never physically entered Madagascar.
