Hervé Parfait Mbapou

Hervé Parfait Mbapou is a businessman from Cameroon who was implicated in a high-profile extortion case involving Nicole Asselé, a former Gabonese minister. He was arrested in January 2026 for allegedly orchestrating a fraudulent scheme that exploited Asselé's political conflicts, demanding significant sums of money under the threat of false accusations related to an assassination plot against the former first lady of Gabon.