French financial prosecutors indict President Sassou Nguessou of Congo Brazaville

After the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang, French financial prosecutors have indicted President Sassou Nguesso family following an investigation of ill-gotten gains targeting the entourage of the Congolese Head of State. The judges Roger Le Loire and Rene Grouman have rejected out rightly previous demand by Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso in April 2013 during an official visit for France not to investigate his family investments within the EU.

Like the late Gabonese President Omar Bongo who died some years ago and the Equatorial Guinea chief executive President Obiang, the president of Congo Brazzavile and his family have ever since 2009 been under a French judicial investigation for financial crimes committed against their own people. It was triggered by a complaint made to the French judiciary by Transparency International accusing President Nguessou "of having misappropriated for his own benefit and for the benefit of his family and his clan, a substantial part of oil revenues" of the Central Africa nation.

A fortnight ago, the French authorities confiscated a fleet of luxury vehicles in Neuilly-sur-Seine from family members of the Sassou Nguesso family. In this affluent town in the Paris suburbs, investigators conducted a search on 3 October 2014 in a triplex of 300 m2 of which they are convinced that "the real owners," hidden behind real estate companies (SCI) are members of the Sassou-Bongo family.

A dramatic raid of one of the residence which culminated to  an inventory, found that jewelry, watches sometimes set with precious stones, designer clothes with some still carrying their price tags amounting to several thousand euros were discovered. Also found at the said residence were receipts and bills over 1.3 million between February 2010 and January 2011. A suitcase was found with wads of banknotes in denominations of 100 and 200 for more than 250,000 euros including nearly 150,000 dollars.