Ex-aide to Gabon's Bongo jailed for five years

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Brice Laccruche Alihanga, a once-powerful chief of staff under Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison after a high-profile trial sparked by an anti-corruption crackdown.

In this file photo taken on September 1, 2016 Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba delivers a speech during a press conference following his re-election. – Gabon’s President Ali Bongo who has been hospitalised for a month in Saudi Arabia will be moved next week to Morocco to recover, a source close to the Gabon presidency said on November 23, 2018. The source said that Bongo, 59, will “come to a hospital in Rabat to convalesce and undergo rehabilitation”.

Shortly after Bongo returned to the political stage, Laccruche was sidelined in November 2019 and then became a target in an anti-corruption drive that also aimed at several high-flying associates. The court in the capital Libreville sentenced him on the relatively minor charge of “improperly issuing administrative documents” and fined him five million CFA francs .“This is a grossly unfair sentence which completely discredits the notion of justice,” Laccruche’s lawyer Anges-Kevin Nzigou told AFP.“I don’t know if we are going to appeal — I don’t believe in the ability of the magistrates involved in this case to interpret the law” correctly, he said.

 

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