Gabon: Gabon charged expelled president’s wife with ‘money laundering’
By Ahmad Hadizat Omayoza, Mamos Nigeria
The spouse of Gabon’s removed president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been accused of “money laundering” and different offenses, the public prosecutor said Friday, a month after a coup overturned her husband.
Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin, who is Franco-Gabonese, and one of two or three’s children have been blamed by the upset chief for having called the shots in the oil-rich country.
Their oldest child, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, has proactively been accused of defilement and stealing public assets with a few previous bureau individuals and two ex-clergymen.
Sylvia Bongo was charged by a researching judge on Thursday and requested to stay detained at home, Andre Patrick Roponat declared on state Television slots.
She additionally has to deal with different penalties including camouflage and fraud, he said.
Sylvia Bongo has been detained at home in the capital Libreville since the overthrow on August 30.
She has been segregated from her significant other and her French legal counselors have recorded a grumbling in Paris against what they expressed “gives off an impression of being a prisoner taking”.
Bongo, 64, who had managed the focal African country starting around 2009, was toppled by military pioneers on August 30, minutes subsequent to being broadcasted the champ in an official political decision.
The outcome was marked a misrepresentation by the resistance and the tactical overthrow pioneers, who have likewise blamed his system for boundless defilement and terrible administration.
Ali Bongo was chosen after his dad Omar kicked the bucket in 2009 after almost 42 years in power.
misappropriation of public assets and tax evasion, Roponat had told a question and answer session.
Seven including Noureddin Bongo were kept.
Two previous priests — for oil and public works — have likewise been kept.
Bongo, who was himself detained at home for a few days after the overthrow, is “allowed to move around” and travel to another country, Gabon’s new military ruler General Brice Oligui Nguema said seven days after the upset.
In October 2018, Bongo experienced a stroke that sidelined him for a long time.
Oligui, in a discourse to the Conservative Gatekeeper this month, charged the previous “First Woman” and Noureddin of having “wasted” the president’s power.
“Since his stroke, they have misrepresented the mark of the president, they provided orders in his place,” he said.
Following the upset, Oligui gathered around 200 Gabonese business pioneers to a gathering, whom he addressed on defilement.
Broadcast on state TV, he harshly cautioned business pioneers against “over-charging” and advised them to focus on the “improvement of the country”.
He additionally promised to bring in certain the cheated cash “returns to the state”.
