Julienne Sassou Nguesso, 50, and her 53-year-old husband Guy Johnson were placed under investigation this week for "money laundering and misuse of public funds", the sources said on Sunday. Investigators are trying to determine how the couple in 2006 were able to purchase buy a mansion valued at €3m in the swanky Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine just north of the ritzy 16th arrondissement, according to a judicial source. The tentacles of the case also reach out to ruling families in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Julienne Sassou Nguesso is an insurance agent by profession and her husband is a lawyer. Between 2007 and 2011, the seven-bedroom house with an indoor pool underwent renovations of €5.34m, raising the couple’s total investment to nearly €10m. Investigators believe the couple may have financed part of the project through an offshore company in the Seychelles and with the sale of shares Julienne Sassou Nguesso owned in a telecommunications company tied to "corruption operation...
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