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Pascaline Bongo, eldest daughter of former president Omar Bongo Ondimba, will be tried in early 2024 in Paris with the company Egis Route, a subsidiary of the French News
A French court will try Pascaline Bongo, eldest daughter of Gabon's former president Omar Bongo, early next year on suspicion of corruption, a judicial source told AFP.
The Bongo family that controlled Gabon for 56 years, until the coup a few days ago, loved music so much that they likely spent millions of the oil-rich country's dollars on courting international artists.
A palace putsch fired by anger over a disputed election ends Ali Ben Bongo's rule but not the old elite's influence, The speed at which General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, who is due to be sworn in as transitional president on 4 September, has consolidated power suggests his putsch against President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in the early hours of 30 August had been well prepared among a few senior officers and politicians, many nursing personal grievances against the regime.
Ossa said the military takeover was ‘a palace revolution, not a coup’ staged to keep the Bongo family in power in Gabon.