The prosecution confirmed on Wednesday the decision to place under electronic arrest the two brothers of Farba Ngom, suspected of having taken part in suspicious financial transactions, including a transfer of 4 billion FCFA from the public treasury in June 2022. The two brothers are charged with: association of perpetrators in an organized criminal gang, complicity in fraud against public funds, money laundering, and abuse of social property. The public prosecutor’s office had appealed against the order of the investigating judge of the premier cabinet financier, who had preferred the placement under electronic surveillance to preventive detention. La Chambre d’accusation has therefore confirmed this measure, despite the appeal. The same chamber also ruled on the case of Farba Ngom, rejecting one of the accusations of the mayor of Agnams for association of criminals in an organized gang. In another development, the magistrate instructor Idrissa Diarra ordered, on Tuesday 22 July 2025, a medical counter-expertise designating three multidisciplinary doctors, charged with evaluating the state of health of the deputy. This decision followed the rejection by the judge of a request for provisional release, made on 10 July last, despite a first medical expertise commissioned by the court concluding that Farba Ngom’s state of health was incompatible with detention. However, the judge found it necessary to obtain a new independent evaluation. The group of doctors responsible for the counter-expertise is composed of: Dr Serigne Maguèye Guèye, head of the urology department of the Hôpital Général Idrissa Pouye, Dr Pape Saliou Mbaye, intern in hepatology and gastroenterology, and Dr Ousmane Dièye, cardiologist. Their mission: to provide a detailed medical opinion on Farba Ngom’s ability to live in a prison environment. Le maire des Agnams is placed under a mandat de dépôt since February 2025. He is being prosecuted for: money laundering, embezzlement of public funds, and association of criminals.
Farba Ngom case: The accusing chamber cancels an indictment, his brothers are kept under electronic bracelet
