It rated 165th out of 180 states on Transparency International’s 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index. © 2021 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved. Who’ll implement the National Quality Policy? Daily newsletterReceive essential international news every morning, Take international news everywhere with you! Between 2007 and 2011, the seven-bedroom house with an indoor pool underwent renovations of 5.34 million euros, raising the couple's total investment to nearly 10 million euros. A son of Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been indicted in France on money-laundering charges in a probe into the family’s foreign assets, a source close to the case told AFP on Friday. Audience ratings certified by ACPM/OJD. The country has been unable to repay its creditors on agreed terms and timetables since 2015 at least. A family unit To supervise the strategic and sensitive task of logistics and transporting voters on polling day, Sassou appointed his eldest daughter Julienne Issongo Johnson , known as "Joujou", … Claudia, 50, is married to a lawyer but she kept a side-dude. Son fils Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso, dit "Kiki", dont les ambitions présidentielles sont inversement … On Monday, the investigative NGO Global Witness said the SNPC — the Societe Nationale des Petroles du Congo — had at least $2.7 billion in previously undisclosed debts to oil majors. Investigators are trying to determine how the couple in 2006 were able to purchase a mansion valued at 3 million euros ($3.4 million) in the swanky Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine just north of the ritzy 16th arrondissement, according to a judicial source. Obiang's son, Teodorin, is currently fighting a case in a Paris court for having allegedly pillaged the country's assets to fund a lavish personal lifestyle. Biens mal acquis (French: Ill-gotten goods) is a phrase used in French courts for litigation seeking the repayment of assets stolen from poor countries by corrupt officials. 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Sassou Nguesso was re-elected for a five-year term as President of the PCT Central Committee and President of the Republic at the party's Third Ordinary Congress on 27–31 July 1984; he was sworn in for his new term on 10 November 1984, and on this occasion he announced the release of Yhombi-Opango. Cette mise en examen a eu lieu dans le cadre de l'enquête sur l'affaire dite des « biens mal acquis », portant sur l'origine… French authorities charged the daughter and son-in-law of Congo’s President with “money laundering and misuse of public funds,” as part of a larger investigation into the assets of three African presidential families, media reported Sunday.. Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris (Photo: AntonyB, CC BY-SA 3.0) Julienne Sassou Nguesso, 50, and her husband, Guy Johnson, 53, … Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso est le premier membre de la famille du président congolais à être poursuivi dans ce volet de l’affaire depuis une première série de mises en examen en 2017, notamment pour des faits de recel et blanchiment de détournement de fonds publics. Après Wilfrid Nguesso, neveu du président du Congo, c'est au tour de sa fille, Julienne Sassou-Ngues, et de son gendre, Guy Johnson d'être mis en examen dans l'enquête des “biens mal acquis” portant sur le patrimoine de trois présidents africains, de leurs familles et de leur entourage, constitué et placé hors de leurs pays dans une opacité qui a attiré la curiosité de …