Former Senegal Government Ministers Charged over Covid Fund Fraud

Former Senegal government ministers charged over Covid fund fraud

A special court in Senegal has charged four former government ministers from ex-president Macky Sall's cabinet with corruption and embezzlement related to the management of Covid-19 funds – under a wider anti-corruption campaign by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

Another former Senegalese minister arrested

The mayor of Louga appeared before the investigating commission of the High Court of Justice as part of the accountability process for the management of Covid-19 funds. He is being prosecuted for embezzlement of 930 million CFA francs of public funds, related to a batch of masks for which he was responsible during the pandemic. Moustapha Diop joins Ndèye Aminata Loum Ndiaye, former director of general administration and equipment (DAGE) of his m…

Senegal Charges Fourth Ex-Minister in Corruption Inquiry

A fourth former government minister in Senegal has been formally charged with corruption, as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye intensifies his anti-corruption drive, court sources and local media reported on Thursday. Moustapha Diop, who served as minister for industrial development under former President Macky Sall, stands accused of misappropriating approximately four million dollars from a national fund established to tackle the COVID-19 pandem…

Three years after the first arrests of civil society, a glimmer of hope seems to be poised on the horizon in the opaque case of the management of Covid-19 funds in Gabon. The Court of Auditors has recently responded to the request of the Citizen's Copil for the opening of a formal investigation. [...]

The arrest of Moustapha Diop, which was decided by the High Court of Justice on Thursday, caused a wave of shock among his supporters. The former minister was prosecuted in a case concerning the alleged irregular management of 2.5 billion FCFA, allocated to the purchase of health masks during the crisis of the Covid-19. In front of the grids of the court, his supporters, gathered in the hope of a more lenient verdict, allowed their emotion to er…

The former Minister of Industry, Moustapha Diop, was charged and arrested at the end of his hearing on Thursday by the High Court of Justice's investigating commission. Mayor of Louga, he is prosecuted for the alleged embezzlement of several hundred million FCFA in the context of the management of the funds allocated to [...]