French investigators have charged the daughter and son-in-law of Congo's
President Denis Sassou Nguesso with corruption, judicial sources said on Sunday.
Julienne Sassou Nguesso, 50, and her 53-year-old husband Guy Johnson
were placed under investigation this week for "money laundering and
misuse of public funds", the sources said.
In March, the nephew of the Congo-Brazzaville president, Wilfrid Nguesso, was placed under investigation on the same counts.
The investigation is part of a probe by French police into how members
of the families of three African presidents - Congo, Gabon and
Equatorial Guinea that began in 2010.
French investigators are looking into the entire Nguesso clan as well as
relatives of Gabon's late president Omar Bongo and his son, the current
ruler, and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea.
Obiang's son, Teodorin, is currently fighting a case in a Paris court
for having diverted the country's assets himself to fund his lavish
lifestyle.
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