Overruling a decision handed down by the Paris Court of ­Appeal last year, the Supreme Court’s criminal chamber backed demands by Transparency International France (TIF) and campaign group Sherpa that a probe be undertaken into how properties, cars and bank accounts were acquired in France by President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazz­aville, deceased Gabonese president Omar Bongo Ondimba and Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo.

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