Bargny : comment une Gambienne a dépouillé un riche commerçant de 673 millions F CFA
The officers at the Guédiawaye police station handling the case didn't need to search for or summon the accused. She was handed to them on a silver platter by the complainant. Under circumstances not specified by L'Observateur, which covered the case in its Monday edition, Mr. Ndiaye drove AS Tréra to the police station before filing a complaint against her for fraud. The first is a wealthy wholesale merchant based in Bargny. The second is a Gambian businesswoman.
They established their business relationship in Touba in 2023, recounts the daily newspaper of the Future Media Group. "The wholesaler supplies her with powdered milk which she loads from her warehouses in Bargny to resell in Gambia. But over the months, the trader accumulates payment delays," reports the newspaper, citing a debt of 200 million CFA francs.
Despite this debt, the same source continues, AS Tréra convinced Mr. Ndiaye in February 2026 to entrust them with a stock of rice worth 330 million. The idea was to sell the rice and give the merchant his share. “No payment arrived,” L’Observateur points out. “Worried, he went to Banjul. AS Tréra had already sold the rice and used the funds to import its own containers from Europe.”
That's not all. Just a few weeks after the rice incident, the businesswoman visited the merchant. He hoped for payment of the outstanding sums. He was wrong. According to L'Observateur, AS Tréra explained that she had a large stock of rice in Gambia and was struggling to raise the 39 million CFA francs needed to clear it through customs.
“To reassure her supplier, she suggested that the money be given to her brother, A. Tréra, who lived in Sacré Cœur. He would then be responsible for going to Gambia to handle the customs clearance. But once again, the businesswoman broke her word. Mr. Ndiaye, having been robbed, went to the Guédiawaye police station with the Gambian businesswoman.”
According to the plaintiff's calculations, the damages are estimated at 673,800,000 CFA francs, reports L'Observateur. The newspaper indicates that AS Tréra was taken into custody on the orders of the Pikine/Guédiawaye prosecutor, despite her commitment to settle all or part of her debt within "a few weeks."
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