Gabon Former First Lady Arrested of “money laundering”

Wife of Gabon’s ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with “money laundering” and other offences, the public prosecutor said a month after a coup toppled her husband

Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin was charged by an investigating judge Andre Patrick Roponat announced on state TV channels.

She has been under house arrest in the capital city of Gabon since the coup in oil-rich nation on August 30.

Roponat said her house arrest order has also been upheld.

Their son has already been charged with corruption and embezzling public funds with several former cabinet members and two ex-ministers.