Morocco commutes detained ex-minister's sentence

Amadou Mansour Faye, Aïssatou Sophie Gladima, Moustapha Diop, Salimata Diop and Ismaïla Madior Fall are particularly suspected of embezzlement of an anti-Covid fund.

In Senegal, five former ministers will soon be tried by the High Court of Justice. The majority of the deputies of the National Assembly voted on Thursday, 8 May, a indictment resolution to this effect. As a result, a series of trials will be opened shortly before this special court, the only one empowered to hear charges against former ministers or heads of state. The charges against these ministers relate mainly to suspicions of embezzlement o…

Dakar, 9 May (Prensa Latina) For five ministers of the Senegalese President Macky Sall what keeps the future is an investigation for crimes of diversion of funds and embezzlement, approved by parliament and disseminated today. The post Auditors accuse six former Senegalese ministers of embezzlement first appeared on News Prensa Latina.

Morocco commutes detained ex-minister's sentence

A Moroccan court has commuted the prison sentence of opposition figure and former minister Mohamed Ziane from five to three years, his lawyer said Thursday. The former human rights minister had already been detained since 2022 and was serving a three-year term in a different case. Ziane, 82, the former president of the Rabat bar association, was convicted on charges of “embezzlement and squandering of public funds”, his son and lawyer Ali Reda Z…

The Senegalese authorities referred five former ministers from the Government of former President Maki Sall to the Supreme Court of Justice, against charges of embezzlement of public funds allocated to the Coveed-19 pandemic. The decision, which came after extensive investigations, was based on a report issued by the Court of Accounts in December 2022, which revealed serious financial irregularities in the management of the emergency fund, which…

Five Senegalese ex-ministers charged with corruption

The Senegalese Parliament voted Thursday evening on a draft resolution to refer five ministers from the regime of former President Macky Sall to the High Court of Justice for trial on corruption charges. The National Assembly, controlled by the Pastef party, voted overwhelmingly in favour of the draft resolution. Those accused of corruption in the […] The post Five Senegalese ex-ministers charged with corruption appeared first on Libyan Express.