Top Gabonese Aide Resigns Over Bank Probe
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top aide to Gabon's new President, Ali Ben Bongo has resigned after being named
by the media, as implicated in an investigation into about forty million Euros
of losses at the Bank of Gabon, Central Africa.
Bongo's cabinet director, Jean-Pierre Oyiba
was named as one of several officials to have allegedly benefited from the bank,
which issues the currency of the Central African Franc zone.
BEAC member states had pledged in September
to investigate the nature of the losses made by the bank, where an auditing
committee is already investigating alleged embezzlement of finances during the
2004-2008 period.
At his first cabinet meeting since taking
over from his late father, Ali
Ben Bongo last month, recalled BEAC head,
Philibert Andzembe, had promised to arrest any Gabonese official implicated in
the affair.
The BEAC defines monetary policy for the
mainly oil-producing states of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central
African Republic, Chad and Congo Republic.
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