In 2003, Sonia Rolland becomes the proud owner of an apartment in Paris, in the very posh sixteenth arrondissement of the capital.
But the latter, which is none other than a gift fromOmar Bongowould, according to information from the Parisianwas financed in an opaque way.
The former beauty ambassador (she won the scarf from Miss France 2000) was indicted on Monday, May 30, by a Parisian investigating judge for concealment of embezzlement of public funds, corruption and misuse of corporate assets.
Sonia Rolland therefore finds his name cited in the case of the “ill-gotten gains” of the old President of Gabon in which 4 of his 54 children also find themselves suspected of having benefited from a dubious heritage.
The main interested party claims to have been totally naive on the subject. “I did not know the mode of financing and I was not interested in it, I had heard of the Elf affair, but I had not made the connection, and I did not know that the Bongo family had acquired so many properties in France”, she declared to the authorities, still according to The Parisian.
“We must beware of judging with today’s knowledge of the facts of 2003. My client was 22 years old, she was coming out of a period when she was projected into a universe of which she knew nothing”for his part entrusted his lawyer, Me Charles Morel.
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Apolline Demarchelier