Nov. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Guinean military authorities have ordered the opening of judicial investigations against former President Alpha Condé, overthrown in the September 2021 coup, and other high-ranking officials of his Government for alleged corruption.
The Guinean Minister of Justice, Charles Wright, has detailed that the investigations affect a total of 187 former senior Guinean officials, including Condé and several of his ministers, counselors, directors of public companies and deputies, according to the Guinean news portal Guinée Matin.
Thus, he has detailed that these people are suspected of acts of corruption, illicit enrichment, money laundering, false documents and embezzlement, before defending that the investigations are part of “his policy of moralizing public life.”
Wright stressed in a statement that the authorities “have set the objective of fighting economic and financial crimes” and stressed that the process “is framed by legal rules, mainly respect for the presumption of innocence.”
“It is imperative to open judicial investigations to clarify the origin of funds in different accounts,” said the Guinean Minister of Justice, who has also published the list of people to be investigated, including former Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana and former Minister of Defense Mohamed Diané.
The riot, led by Mamady Doumbouya, was given after months of political crisis in the country due to Condé’s decision to modify the Constitution to run for a third term and his victory in the 2020 presidential elections, in which the rest of the candidates denounced fraud.
Condé, 84, was forced to return to Conakry in early April after undergoing three months of medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after receiving permission from the junta after receiving, in principle, permission from the coup plotters. to stay there only one month.
