Last week, the commission d’instruction of the Haute Cour de justice rejected the request for provisional release of the former minister of industrial development and small and medium-sized enterprises, Moustapha Diop. This decision is intervenue après its hearing sur le fond du dossier. The former Minister is being prosecuted on a number of counts, including “association of perpetrators, bribery, corruption, unlawful taking of interest, forgery and use of forged documents in private commerce or banking, embezzlement of public funds, fraud involving public funds, money laundering and complicity in these offences”. Moustapha Diop had been placed under mandat de dépôt at the end of the month of May last. At his trial, he had categorically rejected all the facts of which he was accused. According to the newspaper Libération in its edition of this Thursday, the supporters of the former minister are actively organizing a march of support that will be held soon in Louga (northwest).
Moustapha Diop: the commission of inquiry rejects his request for provisional liberty
