Gabonese "ill-gotten gains": will Ali Bongo be prosecuted by French justice? News
For the Bongo dynasty, after the time of power will perhaps come that of the courts News
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For the Bongo dynasty, after the time of power will perhaps come that of the courts News
France has charged five more children of former Gabonese president Omar Bongo in a long-running inquiry into the financing of the late president's real estate empire, said to be worth 85 million euros.
French investigators suspect several members of the late president's family to have knowingly benefitted from a "fraudulently acquired" real-estate empire worth at least 85 million euros ($87 million).
Four children of Gabon's late president Omar Bongo have been charged in France with embezzlement and corruption, a source familiar with the case said on Thursday.