The urgency of recovering the looted public monies must not lead to an instrumentalization of justice by the executive. According to the former magistrate specialized in criminal law and criminal procedure, the Senegalese justice system has an obligation to remain “independent and impartial”. In the opinion of Ibrahima Dème, “the obligation to recover debts must not lead the judiciary to fail to meet its obligations to an independent and impartial judiciary, which alone can guarantee a fair trial”. Indeed, according to the jurist specialising in the law of the child and the fight against corruption, “the Financial Judiciary Pool, which has corrected certain imperfections of the CREL (Court for the Repression of Illicit Enrichment) seems to follow the path of a justice deviated by its politicization”. The initiation of this procedure is linked to a report by the National Financial Information Processing Unit (Centif), which cites at least 11 companies and individuals such as Farba Ngom, a member of parliament and close to former President Macky Sall. Moreover, the Minister of Justice seized the National Assembly for the lifting of his parliamentary immunity. The petition will be presented this Tuesday, 14 January, at 4 p.m., to the members of the Bureau du Parlement.
The case of the 125 billion CFA francs: Le juge Dème warns of the exploitation of justice and…
