LIBREVILLE: The wife of Gabon’s ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been booked for money laundering and other offences, Western media reported on Friday.
The public prosecutor announced the development a month after a coup toppled the government of her husband.
Andre Patrick Roponat in a statement on state media said that Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin was charged by an investigating judge on Thursday.
The wife of the ousted president has been under house arrest in the capital Libreville since the coup in the oil-rich African state on August 30.
Roponat said that the court has also upheld her house arrest order.
Her son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, has already been booked under corruption charges and embezzlement of public funds along with some former cabinet members.
Bongo, 64, who had ruled the central African country since 2009, was ousted by military leaders soon after he proclaimed the winner in a presidential election.
Ali Bongo took over the country when his father Omar died in 2009 after nearly 42 years in power.
Earlier the Military Junta in the central African state of Gabon allowed Ali Bongo to travel outside the country for medical checkups.
Gabon is an oil and minerals-rich state on the west coast of Central Africa, with a population of just 2.4 million.
