{"id":9328,"date":"2023-10-01T13:09:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T13:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2023-10-01T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T13:09:53","slug":"gabon-first-lady-charged-with-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/9328\/gabon-first-lady-charged-with-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon first lady charged with money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".1napoua5g2y.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-6516d8eef34eee40bb929be5.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">Sylvia Bongo, the wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?s=Gabon\">Gabon<\/a>&#8216;s ousted President Ali Bongo, has been charged with money laundering, receiving stolen property, forgery, and the use of forgery.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1napoua5g2y.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-6516d8eef34eee40bb929be5.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">Public prosecutor Andre Patrick Roponat announced on Friday that Sylvia Bongo&#8217;s case had been brought before an investigating judge the day before. He also said her house arrest order was being upheld.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1napoua5g2y.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-6516d8eef34eee40bb929be5.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">The charges follow weeks of uncertainty about Mrs Bongo&#8217;s whereabouts, after she was put under under house arrest on 30 August when the military deposed her husband.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1napoua5g2y.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-6516d8eef34eee40bb929be5.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">The decision to charge the former first lady comes after her son Noureddin Bongo Valentin was also charged with corruption, embezzlement and placed in pre-trial detention.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1napoua5g2y.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-6516d8eef34eee40bb929be5.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">However, deposed President Ali Bongo, whose tenure was replete with accusations of corruption, has been released by the military junta and cleared to travel abroad for medical attention if he wished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia Bongo, the wife of Gabon&#8216;s ousted President Ali Bongo, has been charged with money laundering, receiving stolen property, forgery, and the use of forgery. 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