President caught in sex storm
PERU is investigating claims that a former Miss Peru America contestant was lured to the West African nation of Gabon to become 67-year-old President Omar Bongo's lover - and held for nearly two weeks when she refused.
A spokesman for Bongo, Vincent Mavoungou Bouyou, told reporters by telephone from the capital, Libreville, he was not aware of the allegations.
Ivette Lourdes Santa Maria Carty was invited to Gabon to participate as a hostess in a beauty pageant called Miss Humanity, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry said.
Press reports in Lima said organisers of the purported contest contacted Santa Maria via the internet.
Just hours after arriving on January 17 in Libreville, Santa Maria was picked up by an aide of Bongo, driven to the presidential palace and introduced to the African leader, her father said.
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President caught in sex storm