Guinea: Mohamed Lamine Bangoura sentenced to seven years for corruption and embezzlement
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Visionguinee
Guinea’s Economic and Financial Crimes Court has sentenced Mohamed Lamine Bangoura, former president of the Constitutional Court, to seven years in prison for embezzlement, corruption, illicit enrichment and money laundering involving 20 billion Guinean francs. The court also imposed a fine of 2 billion, a five-year ban on standing for election and the confiscation of his assets in Guinea and Senegal, according to VisionGuinee.
Guinea’s Economic and Financial Crimes Court (CRIEF) sentenced Mohamed Lamine Bangoura, former president of the Constitutional Court, to seven years in prison on Wednesday 21 October for embezzlement of public funds, corruption, illicit enrichment and money laundering involving 20 billion Guinean francs, VisionGuinee reports.
The court also fined him two billion Guinean francs and barred him from standing for election for five years. It ordered the confiscation of his assets in Guinea and Senegal in favour of the state. The public prosecutor had sought a 10-year prison sentence, a fine of 50 billion Guinean francs and the confiscation of all his assets.
The conviction comes amid a series of economic and financial proceedings in Guinea. On 15 October, the state secured 300 billion Guinean francs in the trial of Mohamed Diané, the former defence minister sentenced to four years and eight months in prison. On 19 October, prosecutors sought seven-year prison sentences for three defendants in the Ecobank case in Guinea.
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