The wife of Gabon’s deposed president Ali Bongo Ondimba, who has been under house arrest since a late August coup over the suspected embezzlement of public funds, has been jailed, her lawyer said Thursday. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin, who is Franco-Gabonese, was imprisoned late on Wednesday, her Paris-based lawyer Francois Zimeray told AFP, condemning the “arbitrary… illegal procedure”. The 60-year-old was charged on September 28 with money laundering, forgery and falsification of records. According to Gabonese media reports, she was taken into custody at a prison in the capital Libreville…
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