Brother of Senegal ex-president charged with corruption

A member of erstwhile Senegalese president Macky Sall has been charged with “money laundering” and “corruption,” according to his lawyer.

Aliou Sall, who had been held successful custody with his woman astatine a Dakar constabulary presumption since October 7, was released connected bail Monday evening.

The ex-president’s younger member was charged by a justice from the Financial Judicial Pool (PJF) with “money laundering, transgression conspiracy to launder money, corruption, and power peddling”, 1 of his lawyers, Ousmane Thiam, said precocious Monday.

An anti-corruption assemblage attached to the Ministry of Finance cited a existent property institution belonging to the mates successful fishy fiscal transactions related to onshore acquisition successful Dakar.

In 2019, Aliou Sall resigned arsenic caput of a state-run savings deposit aft being named successful transportation with an alleged corruption lawsuit successful the lipid and state sectors.

A Senegalese justice closed the lawsuit successful 2021 citing a deficiency of evidence.

Aliou Sall, who is besides the erstwhile politician of the municipality of Guediawaye, is not the lone subordinate of the household to find himself successful caller trouble.

Amadou Mansour Faye, a brother-in-law of Macky Sall and ex-minister of assemblage development, was charged with corruption and embezzlement of funds utilized for combating the Covid-19 pandemic and detained successful precocious May.

He was granted provisional merchandise nether judicial supervision astatine the extremity of September.

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, elected successful March 2024, and his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, an arch-rival of Macky Sall, person vowed to combat corruption and mismanagement of authorities affairs, starting with the erstwhile president himself.

AFP

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