The fact is that the guy was a Guide in a hunting safari aka a "'pilot". that's probably why it never made it to pprune
From the CAWA website:
Erik has since then been held in custody in Bangui, together with our pilot David Simpson and ten local employees, while the authorities have made an investigation of the case.
The owner of the Central African Wildlife Adventures is Erik Mararv whose father is a well-connected Swede who used to own the biggest well drilling operation in CAR. David Simpson is a young Yorkshire man who was hooked on flying after his parents bought him a flying lesson for his 18th birthday, became hooked and paid for his pilot's licence. After that all he wanted to do was travel and he applied to, and was employed by Erik Mararv. After a year of working for Mararv he was made General Manager of the hunting operation in Bakouma.
There has been some hate mail on a few websites, because CAWA isn't in to photographic safaris, but takes groups of rich hunters to shoot game on a 2.5 million acre concession, of which David Simpson says "Many of them are here for the experience, it's not just about killing things. Some of them are, they want the trophy on the wall. Though I don't understand that myself, but, we might spend a week tracking an animal. We only shoot old males. We have strict quotas. And if we weren't there, the poachers would be. All our trackers are old elephant poachers. We've 25 of them who'd shoot up to 10 elephants a year. That's 250 elephants that are not being shot. If we weren't there, the animals would disappear, like they already have in the north."