An investigation was opened in France after the filing, on October 16, of a complaint by the NGO Sherpa and the European collective of the Djiboutian Diaspora (CESD) targeting the entourage of Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.
An investigation was opened in France after the filing of a complaint by the NGO Sherpa and the European collective of the Djiboutian diaspora (CEDD) targeting the entourage of Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, it was learned this Friday from concordant sources.
The NGO and the CESD had "lodged a complaint on October 16, 2018 for abuse of social property, embezzlement of public funds, breach of trust and bribery of foreign public officials against members of the entourage of the President of Djibouti" , Sherpa said in a statement.
Real estate in Paris
The preliminary investigation has been entrusted to the Central Office for the Suppression of Financial Crime (OCRGDF), a police source confirmed. The National Public Prosecutor's Office refrained from commenting.
The complaint focuses on property located in the 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements of Paris belonging to members of the family of the head of the Djibouti state, in power for seventeen years, including his wife Kadra Haid and his son-in-law Tommy Tayoro Nyckoss.
"Nobody can seriously believe that these properties, whose value is today for some of them of the order of several million euros, could be acquired by the only fruit of the salary of family members Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and his relatives " , is it written in the complaint.
In particular, Tommy Tayoro Nyckoss "seems to be a pivotal personality, central, in the implementation of operations carried out for years by the family of Ismaïl Omar Guelleh for the purpose of misappropriation of public assets," he said. the document.
Several procedures are already underway in France in so-called "ill-gotten property" cases .