Corruption: ex-president Alpha Condé and 187 personalities in the sights of the authorities in Guinea

Former Guinean President Alpha Condé, here at the Élysée Palace in Paris, in November 2017. (illustrative image) PHILIPPE WOJAZER / POOL / AFP

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The Guinean Minister of Justice, Alphonse Charles Wright, ordered this Thursday, November 3, legal proceedings against ex-president Alpha Condé and more than 180 of his former ministers and executives, for alleged acts of corruption.

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In addition to former President

, there are exactly 187 other senior dignitaries of his presidency, ministers, advisers, general managers of public companies or deputies, who are the sights of the military junta.

But some names come up twice.

Among the accused, we find the former Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, who is in preventive detention, as well as no less than forty former ministers of Alpha Condé. 

The military junta, which took power by force in September 2021, has made the

 one of its main battlegrounds.

Among these personalities targeted, some have been in preventive detention for several months, and the soldiers have taken care to freeze bank accounts, officially to avoid “ 

 ”.

Alphonse Charles Wright has just taken a new step by ordering the public prosecutors, at the courts of Conakry and Kankan, to prosecute for " 

 ".

So far, justice has not yet specified the amounts allegedly misappropriated or laundered.

Alpha Condé, who ruled Guinea from 2010 to 2021, was already the subject of prosecution, in particular for assassinations, acts of torture and kidnappings during the bloody repression of demonstrations against his third term.

But he obtained a safe conduct which allowed him to

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• Alpha Conde

• Justice

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• Mamadi Doumbouya