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Gabon’s Bongo family enriched itself over 56 years of kleptocratic rule, spreading its wealth across the world
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Gabon’s Bongo family enriched itself over 56 years of kleptocratic rule, spreading its wealth across the world

A coup in Gabon has marked the end of over half a century of unbroken dynastic rule during which the Bongo family accumulated enormous wealth both at home and offshore, as revealed by the Pandora Papers and several other investigations. Soldiers seized power in the Central African nation last Wednesday, just hours after ailing president...