Senegal: two majority deputies sentenced for trafficking false passports

The courthouse in Dakar, Senegal.

(illustration) RFI/Guillaume Thibault

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Mamadou Sall receives two years in prison, including six months, and Boubacar Biaye two years and five months.

The affair has shaken the National Assembly since last September.

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With our correspondent in Dakar,

False marriage certificates with parliamentarians to obtain diplomatic passports for fictitious wives: this is what El Hadj Diadié Condé promised, on the basis of his relations with the deputies Mamadou Sall and Boubacar Biaye.

Presented as the "brain" of the scam, this trader was sentenced to two years in prison, including ten months.

Mamadou Sall and Boubacar Biaye, elected from the presidential coalition Benno Bokk Yakaar, had denied any involvement in this traffic and blamed the "intermediary", who according to them had used their personal documents without their knowledge.

But the court was not convinced.

During the trial, the prosecutor had pointed the finger at " 

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Reached by telephone, the lawyer for the elected officials, Me Antoine Mbengue, believes that they are on the contrary " 

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Pending consultation with its customers, it does not rule out appealing.

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