Latest update: 06/05/2009 

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Graft probe investigates African leaders' French shopping sprees
Graft probe investigates African leaders' French shopping sprees
A French magistrate has launched a probe into whether the presidents of Gabon, the Congo Republic and Equatorial Guinea used embezzled public funds to go on luxury shopping trips in Paris and on the French Riviera.