Julienne Nguesso, Congo president daughter was recently in the center of a scandal after she refused to oblige her blackmailer. 50-year-old Julienne is married, but as it turns out she had other relationship on the side.
Her boyfriend demanded $50,000 to keep the secret of their affair but Julienne refused. After that, he decided to publish an intimate video of the two of them. The video drastically damaged the reputation of the Congo president.
Scandal with president's daughter
This is not the first of the Congo president daughter's scandal. Julienne Sassou and Guy Johnson, who is her official husband, bought a house worth three million euros in a fashionable suburb of Paris Neuilly-sur-Seine. Sassou subsequently received an indictment of "money laundering and improper use of public funds". According to the investigation, the money passed through some offshore company located in Seychelles.
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Between 2007 and 2011, they spent 5.34 million euros to renovate a house with seven bedrooms and an indoor pool. In total, around 10 million euros were invested in this property. Millions of dollars from state funds were withdrawn to offshore accounts. Apparently, they were spent on the luxurious life of the presidential family members.
French special services have been investigating the entire Sassou Nguesso family. Johnson is also under investigation. The real estate company (in which he holds the position of the asset manager) acquired a mansion in another prestigious district of Paris for 19 million euros. Congo president's nephew was placed under investigation under the same charges.
These investigations are the part of a research series by the French special services about the assets of African presidential families.
As for the president himself, he denies all the charges. And he considered all the scandals associated with his daughter an attempt by his opponents to provoke him.
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Source: Naija.ng
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Thursday, 21 December 2017