2023-08-01 12:57:52
Since Monday, July 24, employees of the oil company TotalEnergies have been on strike. The cause, one of them was fired following having helped a customer to carry out a transaction via MoneyGram, a platform of transfer of funds. The respondent speaks for the first time.
A. Laguerra • Posted on August 1, 2023 at 3:57 p.m., updated on August 1, 2023 at 4:52 p.m.
Baco Mohamadi has been an employee at TotalEnergies since 2008. His position is a gas station attendant at Kawéni station. His fate changes a few weeks ago, when his employer notifies him of his dismissal. At the origin of this dismissal, rules related to the transfer of money that the worker would not have respected. As a reminder, the Total stations on the island are a money transfer point in the world, via the MoneyGram service, which specializes in fund transfers. That day he is on break when a customer asks him to send money for him by MoneyGram using his ID, explaining that he forgot his. A process that management describes as fraudulent.
Since he is a regular customer I agreed to help him, management never alerted me to his background.
According to the group, the client is associated with a money laundering network and the transaction involved a large sum of money. Since then, Baco Mohamadi’s colleagues have launched a strike movement in support of him. They are regarding twenty to follow him today. A movement that might continue the direction advocating “zero tolerance for fraud”.
Management accuses me of associating the image of Total with an association of thugs. It hurts me, if I had known I would never have done it.
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