EX-president Wade’s financial advisor arrested
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- The criminal justice police officers also mentioned other charges including Mr Sarr’s declaration that President Sall had used public funds to pay his personal legal advisor, the French lawyer Mr William Bourdon.
- Mr Sall is likely to appear before a magistrate’s court by the end of this week to provide evidence of the allegations levelled against him.
DAKAR, Wednesday
Ex-President Abdoulaye Wade’s former financial advisor, Samuel Sarr, is being held by the criminal justice police in Dakar for allegedly offending President Macky Sall.
Mr Sall who also served as ex-President Wade’s energy minister was invited to the criminal justice police headquarters in Dakar on Tuesday evening and was subsequently detained.
Before his detention, the former minister was informed about the reason for his “preventive detention’’ which legal sources said could last up to 72 hours.
Declaring his offence, the criminal justice police informed the former minister that he was being held for incriminating President Sall in connection with millions of dollars of public funds which he (Sall) has allegedly planted in foreign banks.
The criminal justice police officers also mentioned other charges including Mr Sarr’s declaration that President Sall had used public funds to pay his personal legal advisor, the French lawyer Mr William Bourdon.
Mr Sall is likely to appear before a magistrate’s court by the end of this week to provide evidence of the allegations levelled against him.
Several former senior government officials are being held in jails across Dakar for allegedly swindling millions of dollars during the 12 year regime of ex-President Wade.
TRILA OF HIS SON KARIM
The former leader who returned to the country for the third time this year from Paris, is presently following the trial of his son Karim, the alleged ring leader of those roped in by government to face charges of swindling about US$1.4 billion.
Last week, the former number two in command of the Senegal’s paramilitary police (gendarmerie), Colonel Abdoulaye Aziz Ndaw was arrested and detained at the criminal investigation department in Dakar.
His arrest was in connection with a two-volume book in which he provides a startling revelation about corruption, nepotism and abuse of power in an institution that was hitherto highly regarded.
Col Ndaw’s arrest last Wednesday evening in Dakar, comes barely ten days after his former boss turned diplomat was recalled as from Portugal where he served as ambassador.
Among the serious allegations were that Gen Fall did not only extort and swindled millions of dollars from ex-President Wade with the pretext to appease the Casamane rebels, but also that he (Fall) collaborated with the rebels in stealing livestock and engaged in illegal logging.
