Europe 1 with AFP 12:09 p.m., June 01, 2022

Former Miss France Sonia Rolland was indicted on Monday in the "ill-gotten gains" case.

It is for an apartment located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris which was offered to her by Gabonese President Omar Bongo that the actress is targeted, according to information from the Parisian.

Miss France 2000 Sonia Rolland was indicted on Monday in the "ill-gotten gains" case, according to information from Le

Parisien

.

Investigators are looking into an apartment offered to him in 2003 by the former Gabonese head of state Omar Bongo.

Sonia Rolland, who is now an actress, was heard on January 6, 2021 under the free suspect regime at the Central Office for the Suppression of Serious Financial Crime (OCRGDF), on facts of concealment of laundering of embezzlement public, indicated a judicial source and a source close to the file, confirming information from

Liberation

.

An apartment worth 800,000 euros

She explained herself on a gift she had received in 2003 from the Bongo spouses, an apartment in the 16th arrondissement of Paris worth 800,000 euros, under the regime of a real estate civil society (SCI).

According to

Liberation

, she recounted having met Edith Bongo, the wife of the former Gabonese president, in 2001 when she was sponsoring Miss competitions in Africa.

In 2002, Edith Bongo allegedly told her that she would give her a gift to thank her for the image she conveyed for Africa.

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The buyer of the apartment would be a French decoration company, which had a subsidiary in Gabon "holding an account in a local bank, on which were deposited for years suitcases of cash, delivered by Bongo employees", writes the daily.

Justice has been investigating Omar Bongo's heritage since 2010

French justice has been investigating since 2010 the considerable heritage amassed in France by Omar Bongo and other African heads of state.

In April 2016, real estate in Paris and Nice, on the French Riviera, belonging to the family of Gabonese President Ali Bongo - son of Omar Bongo, who succeeded his father as leader of the country in 2009 - was seized .

Then in 2017, the investigating judge announced his intention to close the Gabonese part of the investigation, without having pronounced any indictment, therefore a prelude to dismissal.

But a few months later, a new judge relaunched the investigations.

AFP could not reach Sonia Rolland early Monday evening.