July 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former Prime Minister of Guinea Ibrahima Kassory Fofana is under investigation for his alleged participation in the diversion of more than 46 million euros that were part of an international aid item against the coronavirus plus 9.2 million euros in Guinean currency, part of another possible network, as announced by the special prosecutor of the Court for the Repression of Economic and Financial Crimes of the country (CRIEF), Aly Touré.
“The special indictment of the CRIEF blames Ibrahima Kassory Fofana for the embezzlement of several billion of our francs and several million in foreign currency. These include a sum of 46.2 million euros in connection with the emergency procedure to support the epidemic,” according to the statement collected by Guinee Matin.
The Prosecutor’s Office also points to “other no less significant amounts that have been revealed in his management and recorded in his bank accounts in Guinean francs and in foreign currency (dollars and euros)” and that have experienced “suspicious movements.”
Accused as he is for acts of “embezzlement of public funds, illicit enrichment, money laundering, corruption and complicity”, former Prime Minister Fofana has been in preventive detention since April 6, 2022 at the Conakry Central House.
The former Prime Minister of former President Alpha Condé recently obtained a bail decision, but the CRIEF special prosecutor’s office opposed his release, after appealing against the release order.
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