Adama Sangaré, the former mayor of Bamako District, was sentenced on Monday, October 26, 2026, to 10 years in prison by the Criminal Division of Mali’s National Economic and Financial Judicial Centre following his conviction over the illegal subdivision and regularization of public land within the Bamako-Sénou airport zone.
The court handed down identical 10-year sentences to former sub-prefects Daha Keïta and Ibrahim Koïta, while co-defendants Adam Aïché Traoré, Fatouma Samassékou, and Bourama Komagara each received 10-year prison terms with five years suspended. Souleymane Dagnon, the former mayor of Bamako’s Commune VI who was tried in absentia, received a 20-year prison sentence alongside an active warrant for his arrest, while co-defendant Sékou Keïta was acquitted of all charges.
In addition to custodial sentences, the judicial panel ordered the convicted defendants to pay jointly 483.964 million CFA francs in site demolition costs and 50 million CFA francs in civil damages to the Malian state. The judicial proceedings, which opened on October 12 after two administrative postponements, centered on fraudulent land-regularization decisions issued between 2016 and 2018 covering real estate classified under state public property since a September 1999 executive decree. Sangaré and his co-defendants were charged with forgery, public property infringement, and complicity, concluding a landmark anti-corruption prosecution prosecuted by the nation’s specialized economic crimes court.
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