BRAZZAVILLE, June 15 (Xinhua) -- An ex-candidate in Republic of Congo's March 20 presidential elections, who has been kept under house arrest since April, was on Tuesday taken into police custody, one of his lawyers has said.
Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, who once served as Congolese army boss, and later as a security and peace adviser to President Denis Sassou Nguesso, was apprehended after appearing in a video recorded in 2007, in which he was discussing a plan to overthrow Sassou Nguesso.
Having come third in the March 20 presidential elections, Mokoko refused to acknowledge Sassou Nguesso's victory.
