The Bongos – as in former Gabon First Lady Sylvia Bongo and her son Noureddin Bongo – got 20 years in the clink following their conviction on charges of concealment and embezzlement of public funds, money laundering, criminal association and forgery, which was a W for the Gabonese justice system but an L for the actual justice part since that’s almost certainly 20 years more than they’ll actually spend inside of a prison cell since they fled to the UK in 2023, the AP reports.
During the trial, prosecutors had released pics of two private jets bought with laundered money and listed land holdings including a mansion in London and Morocco. Patriarch and deposed ex-president Ali Bongo for some reason was permitted to leave the country too and now lives in Angola.