Friday, February 27, 2009

Gabon president's accounts frozen

Gabon president's accounts frozen

Gabonese President Omar Bongo at a conference in Dakar, March 2008
Omar Bongo's relations with Paris have deteriorated in recent years

French authorities have frozen bank accounts held by Gabon's President Omar Bongo, says a lawyer in a case against Africa's longest-serving head of state.

The move comes after a Bordeaux court ordered President Bongo to return a payment made to him to release a jailed French businessman, Rene Cardona.

He was freed after his son paid more than $580,000 (

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