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Senegal’s OFNAC strengthens investigations and asset declarations

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The president of Senegal’s National Office for the Fight against Corruption, Moustapha Ka, presented the country’s 2025 reforms in Baku, including competitive recruitment, asset declarations and corruption investigations. He also called for stronger exchanges between anti-corruption agencies, according to Seneweb.

In Baku, Moustapha Ka, president of Senegal’s National Office for the Fight against Corruption (OFNAC), reaffirmed the priority given by the Senegalese authorities to combating corruption and international cooperation. He cited the 2025 reform, which provides for agency members to be recruited through competitive examinations, the receipt of public officials’ asset declarations, investigations into acts of corruption and the referral of cases to the justice system, according to Seneweb.

Moustapha Ka also highlighted the secure reporting mechanism enabling citizens to submit alerts about corruption offences to the authorised bodies. He was speaking on the sidelines of the third high-level meeting of heads of anti-corruption agencies from member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held in the Azerbaijani capital, according to Seneweb.

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