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Three important African allies of French President Nicolas Sarkozy could find their French assets under scrutiny after Juge d'Instruction Françoise Desset ruled on 6 May that an anti-corruption case against them (see AC 50 Vol 5) should proceed. The lawyer behind the case is William Bourdon, who represents a coalition of African and French anti-corruption campaigners....

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Nicolas Sarkozy, Françoise Desset, William Bourdon, Omar Bongo Ondimba, Gabon, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea, , Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Congo-Brazzaville, Grégory Ngbwa Mintsa, Juge d'Instruction, Parquet, rupture, Françafrique