{{President Denis Sassou-Nguesso on Monday said, following a meeting with French counterpart Francois Hollande, that French justice had no right to investigate his alleged ill-gotten wealth.}}<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we would like to recall is the principle to which we all subscribe on the international level, which is that of non-interference in the internal affairs [of other countries],\u201d President Sassou-Nguesso told journalists after more than an hour of talks with Hollande..<\/p>\n
Two Parisian prosecutors have been investigating the conditions under which vast wealth \u2014 including French Riviera and Parisian residences, fleets of cars and other property – were acquired in France by Sassou-Nguesso, Gabon\u2019s late president Omar Bongo, Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema, and some of their close aides.<\/p>\n
In 2008, the non-governmental organisations Sherpa and Transparency International France filed a suit calling for an investigation into the origin of these luxury assets. In 2010, the French Cour de Cassation (Supreme Court) upheld this complaint over a lower court.<\/p>\n
However, Sassou-Nguesso said Monday that the principle of non-interference should be \u201crespected so that French justice does not feel it has the right to deal with matters that relate to the internal affairs of other states.”<\/p>\n
Asked by a journalist whether he had lost any sleep over the affair, the leader of the oil-rich central African country replied, \u201cCertainly not!\u201d<\/p>\n
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