Comoros: new arrests linked to the gold trafficking case

New arrests took place in the Comoros linked to the "ingots" affair.

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This week, 49 kg of gold were seized at Moroni airport.

Coming from Madagascar, they were to be transported by private jet to the United Arab Emirates with three travelers on board who were all arrested before take off.

This weekend, the son of an adviser to the Head of State as well as the director of the airport were in turn concerned in the case of "ingots".

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With our correspondent in Moroni,

This case leaves no one indifferent.

But up to what level of involvement does it go?

On social networks, comments are flowing.

The Comorian arrested when he was planning to board the private jet with the ingots is an associate of Faridi Abodo, son of the former legal adviser to the presidency.

Sources close to the investigation confirmed that the searches of Mr. Abodo fils, also arrested, made it possible to find the equivalent of € 85,000 in cash.

Sons of senior officials

Also placed in police custody on New Year's Eve, Yasser Ali Assoumani, the director general of the Comoros airport, is considered a child of the Azali clan.

If the authorities knew nothing about this trafficking, will they drop the sons of senior officials so that justice really sheds light on the Comorian involvement in this international affair which the Malagasy authorities no longer want.

On the Big Island, no one is claiming the two Malagasy indicted in the Comoros nor

.

Three airport officers were also arrested over the weekend.

A high-level commission of inquiry has been set up to lend a hand to the search brigade.

►Also read: Gold trafficking in constant increase in southern Africa, according to a report

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