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Gabon’s First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba attends the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations group A football match between Gabon and Guinea-Bissau at the Stade de l’Amitie Sino-Gabonaise in Libreville on January 14, 2017. The Franco-Gabonese wife of Gabon’s former president Ali Bongo Ondimba, Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin, who has been under house arrest since a military coup at the end of August for alleged misappropriation of public funds, has been jailed, her lawyer said on Thursday. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP)
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Prolonged detention at Libreville central prison for former Franco-Gabonese First Lady Sylvia Bongo. Heard by the investigating judge of the special court in Libreville, this Monday, October 23, the former First Lady, Sylvia Bongo, failed to convince the judges.
Placed under a 10-day committal warrant, his lawyers argued for his provisional release, but were unsuccessful. The magistrates of this jurisdiction instead confirmed the incarceration of Ali Bongo’s wife which had been decreed on October 12.
Sylvia Bongo Valentin will remain in Gros-Bouquet prison until the start of her trial. She was charged in particular with money laundering and forgery and use of forgery on September 28.
The former First Lady, aged 60, is at the heart of a vast investigation into alleged massive embezzlement of public money in the company of her son Noureddin Bongo Valentin, already incarcerated, like six of their close ex-officials. presidential office, according to consistent judicial sources.
The soldiers who overthrew Ali Bongo accuse his entourage of having rigged his re-election, publicly suspecting both the former First Lady and Noureddin of having manipulated the former president suffering from the following-effects of a serious stroke in 2018, and having been the real de facto leaders of the country for five years.
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