APA – Bamako (Mali) – Last Saturday, the Attorney General of the Supreme Court in Mali spoke on national television about the purchase of the presidential plane and military equipment under the former regime.
There has been a new development in the case of the purchase of the presidential plane and military equipment, which led to the arrest of several former officials, including late Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga (2017-2019), who died in custody on 21 March 2017.
There is also the case of former finance minister, Bouaré Fily Dabo Sissoko, who has been in prison since 26 August 2021 and is still being held after refusing to post bail estimated at 500 million CFA francs for her provisional release.
She has repeatedly called for her case to be heard in order to establish the truth.
In the case of Mahamadou Camara, a former minister and late President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s former chief of staff, who was provisionally released last March after posting a bail bond of 500 million CFA francs, the value of the 10 land titles he handed over to the national land registry director, is somewhat different.
Speaking last Saturday on the case, the public prosecutor claimed that the sums of “17 billion, often 19 or 20 billion CFA francs” quoted were far from the truth.
According to him, these contracts were awarded for a total of 69 billion CFA francs, including a provisional estimate of 56 billion CFA francs in damages to public funds to the detriment of the state.
The Public Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Mamoudou Timbo, added that a judicial investigation had been opened against those named in the case.
He announced that international arrest warrants had been issued for several people outside the country.
These include the last prime minister under the late IBK, Boubou Cissé, and former ministers Moustapha Ben Barka (currently vice-president of the West African Development Bank – BOAD) and Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly, Mamadou Igor Diarra (regional director of the Group Bank of Africa), businessmen Babaly Bah (former CEO of Banque Malienne de Solidarité – BMS), Sidy Mohamed Kagnassi, Amadou Baïba Kouma, Nouhoum Kouma, Soumaila Diaby and Mamadou Lamine Diakité.
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