Two Gabon former ministers jailed for embezzlement
January 13, 2017 | Gabon, Government & Regulations
London, UK | — Gabon’s former oil minister Etienne Dieudonné Ngoubou was jailed on Thursday evening, a judicial source said, days after another ex-minister was incarcerated in an unprecedented anti-corruption crackdown. Ngoubou was being held in a Libreville prison following a hearing by an investigating judge over embezzlement of public funds, a prosecutor said. The minister left his office to a chorus of boos from staff on Tuesday, after being sacked from the post he had held since 2012. He was interrogated on Wednesday as …