BNP Paribas, one of France’s leading banks, has been indicted on suspicion of laundering tens of millions of euros of Gabonese public money stemming from corruption and embezzlement. It’s the latest…
Europe s biggest bank charged with laundering ill-gotten funds for African dictator Historic first as BNP-Paribas accused of helping buy a string of luxury properties in France for Gabon s wealthy Bongo family
21 May 2021 • 7:10pm
Omar Bongo, who ruled Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009, was a “politically exposed person” at “risk of laundering”, according to a report
Credit: AFP
Europe s biggest bank, BNP-Paribas, has been charged with laundering tens of millions of euros worth of public money in France for the family of Gabon s late leader Omar Bongo, in what plaintiffs have called a historic first”.
This month, however, a judge slapped charges for the first time on a French bank for acting as “facilitator” in the acquisition of a string of luxury properties in Paris and the French Riviera belonging to the Bongo family.
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Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary,
The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote:
Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons dropped throughout all of Southeast Asia and Laos.
“We had the information coming from Dow that there were real problems for people associated with this chemical. It was all locked up for 35 years.”
Tran To Nga (R) speaks with the press (Photo: VNA)
Berlin (VNA) – The
German Communist Party (DKP)
on May 10 issued a statement expressing its support for the lawsuit lodged by Vietnamese
French Tran To Nga and Vietnamese Agent Orange/dioxin victims against 14
In a statement sent to the
Vietnamese Embassy in Germany and the
Vietnam News Agency representative office in Berlin, the DKP
stated that on May 10, a court in Evry city, Paris ruled that the case fell outside its jurisdiction.
This ruling has once
again ignored millions of Vietnamese who are suffering from serious
consequences caused by the chemical war waged by the US troops during the war in Vietnam, it said, stressing that the party will continue bringing to light culprits behind