Fugitive arrested in Almadies in two cases involving 1.6 billion CFA francs
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Dakaractu
Dakar’s Research Brigade has arrested in Almadies a man wanted for eight months and subject to an international arrest warrant. He is being prosecuted in a land case involving more than 1.372 billion CFA francs and is implicated in alleged fraud of 300 million CFA francs linked to Wave and Orange Money, according to Dakaractu.
Dakar’s Research Brigade arrested a man in Almadies on 25 October 2026. He was wanted for eight months under an international arrest warrant in connection with two cases involving more than 1.6 billion CFA francs, Dakaractu reports. He was being prosecuted in a land case involving more than 1.372 billion CFA francs and was also the subject of an investigation into alleged fraud of 300 million CFA francs linked to Wave and Orange Money accounts.
According to the National Gendarmerie, the suspect stayed in Morocco, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Gambia before returning to Senegal. In the land case, he is being prosecuted for alleged offences including evasion, criminal association, fraud, forgery and use of forged documents, and money laundering.
The arrest follows the referral to court in Dakar on 19 October of two suspects in a forged administrative documents case, and the arrest on 21 October of a suspect after the Spanish embassy was burgled. The day before the Almadies arrest, the gendarmerie also announced the dismantling of an ecstasy network in Saint-Louis.
