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  • Fri, 27 Feb 2009
    Assets Of Gabon's Bongo Frozen In France
    The French government has frozen President Omar Bongo's bank accounts following an appeal court ruling directing Gabon’s president to return payment he received in exchange for a French businessman. According to French officials, President Bongo was paid more than $580,000 to release Frenchman Rene Cardona who was arrested following a dispute with the president in 1996 over fishing and shipping firm.
  • Thu, 29 Oct 2009
    France halts African leaders case
    France halts African leaders case
  • Wed, 6 May 2009
    France Investigating African Money Laundering
    A French magistrate has decided to investigate claims that three African leaders invested millions of dollars in embezzled funds in property and other goods in France. The three leaders in question are Omar Bongo of Gabon, Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Republic of Congo and Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.
  • Mon, 16 Feb 2009
    France: New Corruption Claim Arises on Deals with Africans
    French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has been accused of misusing his public position in France to boost his profitable private business with prominent African dictators.
  • Thu, 26 Feb 2009
    French court freezes Omar Bongo's bank accounts
    A French court has frozen nine bank accounts belonging to Gabon's President Omar Bongo after he failed to comply with an earlier order to return a payment to obtain the release of a jailed French businessman. Lawyers say that the accounts hold more than four million euros.
  • Tue, 26 May 2009
    African Minister Drives Bugatti Over G-20
    When the playboy son of Equatorial Guinea’s president-despot bought a $35 million house in Malibu, California, in 2006, his neighbors, who included actor Mel Gibson and singer Britney Spears, barely blinked.
  • Fri, 29 Jun 2007
    Gabon President guilty of graft
    A court in the French city of Bordeaux ordered the President of Gabon, Omar Bongo Ondiba, to compensate the son of a French citizen, René Cardona, who was jailed in Gabon in 1996. The court found Mr Bongo guilty of official corruption.
  • Thu, 26 Feb 2009
    Gabon president's accounts frozen
    French authorities have frozen Gabon President Omar Bongo's bank accounts.
  • Mon, 13 Apr 2009
    Gabon president challenges French account freeze
    Gabonese President Omar Bongo is seeking to overturn a French court order freezing nine of his bank accounts in the country, a source close to the case said Sunday.
  • Thu, 21 Jun 2007
    Presidents Bongo, Nguesso face Paris investigations
    Following complaints lodged by right groups, French authorities have instituted a preliminary inquiry against Presidents of Gabon and Congo Brazzavile who are accused of embezzling their public funds to acquire properties in France.
  • Wed, 6 May 2009
    French probe into African leaders
    A French magistrate has opened a preliminary investigation into alleged embezzlement by three African leaders.
  • Mon, 13 Jul 2009
    Republic of Congo electing president
    BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — Opposition calls for a voter boycott in the Republic of Congo's presidential election appeared to be cutting into the turnout Sunday, but it was unclear how this would affect longtime President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's bid for another term.
  • Fri, 13 Feb 2009
    L'affaire "BMA" secoue la Françafrique
    News article in French about the BMA affair.
  • Sun, 5 Apr 2009
    Monaco hunts for dictators’ stashes
    SO eager was Monaco to be removed from the “black list” of tax havens under scrutiny by the G20 summit last week that it has opened an investigation into bank accounts suspected of sheltering the ill-gotten gains of Third World dictators.
  • Thu, 29 Oct 2009
    French court stops probe of African leaders' assets
    French court stops probe of African leaders' assets
  • Fri, 12 Jun 2009
    Bongo Successor Must Fight Corruption In Gabon - Annan
    Former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan said Wednesday the successor to Gabon's late president Omar Bongo Ondimba must respect human rights and fight corruption.
  • Thu, 7 May 2009
    Gabon's Bongo temporarily stands down
    Africa's longest serving leader, President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, announced on Wednesday that he was "temporarily" suspending his duties to rest and mourn the death of his wife last month.
  • Wed, 12 Mar 2008
    Corruption campaigners sue three African leaders
    French anti-corruption activists filed a civil lawsuit against the presidents of Gabon, The Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea Tuesday, accusing them of using stolen public money to purchase millions-of-euros-worth of luxury property in France.
  • Fri, 25 Jul 2008
    Africa: TI-France re-files complaint targeting assets of five African heads of state
    TI-France and the SHERPA Association have reported that a law suit was filed at the Court of Paris on Wednesday 9 July, relating to the circumstances under which huge real estate and financial capital was acquired in France by Denis Sassou Nguesso, Omar Bongo, Téodoro Obiang, Blaise Compaoré, Eduardo Dos Santos and their close associates or families.
  • Sun, 8 Mar 2009
    President Bongo's party to review ties with former colonial ruler
    Officials in the former French colony of Gabon called for a review of relations with Paris. Last month, France froze nine of Bongo's bank accounts after a court ordered the president to return payment made to him to release a jailed Frenchman.
  • Wed, 29 Apr 2009
    African leaders' French assets under scrutiny
    A French anti-corruption group and a citizen of Gabon have launched legal action in Paris against the presidents of three oil-producing African countries, targeting assets they or their close relatives own in France.
  • Sun, 20 Jul 2008
    President of Gabon uses treasury cash to fund luxury lifestyle
    A mansion worth £15m in one of Paris’s most elegant districts has become the latest of 33 luxury properties bought in France by President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, the world’s longest-serving leader, and his family, it was alleged last week.
  • Wed, 6 May 2009
    Lawsuit on Africa leaders 'valid'
    A French magistrate has ruled that a lawsuit against three African leaders accused of embezzlement is admissible.
  • Wed, 10 Jun 2009
    Who will get Bongo's cash?
    While the people of Gabon mourn the death of their President and await his funeral, others are asking themselves what will happen to the criminal case brought against Omar Bongo in relation to alleged stolen assets, and a string of luxurious apartments, bank accounts and cars.
  • Sun, 25 Jan 2009
    Corruption in Africa: A cancer that won't go away
    Essay on impact that corruption has made on African development

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