Bignona : gros scandale à la mairie
Four people—M. Amarh, alias “Moussa Bassène,” O. Bassène, F. Coly, alias “Fakéba,” and Ch. O. Diouf—were brought before the Ziguinchor prosecutor's office on charges of criminal conspiracy, forgery and use of forged public documents, complicity, and the fraudulent acquisition of administrative documents. According to revelations by Libération, this group enabled foreign nationals, particularly Ghanaians, to fraudulently obtain Senegalese administrative documents in order to claim Senegalese nationality. The network was dismantled by the local branch of the National Division for Combating Migrant Smuggling and Related Practices (DNLT).
The case broke following a complaint of fraud involving more than 43 million CFA francs, the newspaper reports. Presented as a Senegalese businessman named "Moussa Bassène" and director of the company "Amak BTP Properties Sarl" in Bignona, the main suspect turned out to be Mr. Amarh, a Ghanaian national. To gain the victim's trust and extract these funds under the pretext of fictitious investments and administrative fees, the same source indicates, the fake businessman received assistance from O. Bassène, president of the Kassumay Tefess Economic Interest Group (GIE). Bassène even went so far as to provide him with his own parents' civil status information to fabricate a false Senegalese lineage.
According to information shared by the daily newspaper, the DNLT's investigation quickly uncovered serious administrative complicity at the heart of the Bignona town hall. For the paltry sum of 50,000 CFA francs, AB Badiane, an agent of Sonaged, acted as an intermediary to put the Ghanaian suspect in contact with civil registrar F. Coly. The latter admitted to having personally and irregularly inserted a false birth certificate into the official register for the year 1980, under number 2059. The newspaper specifies that investigators also detected blatant material anomalies on the counterfeit document, which clashed with the rest of the original register. It was thanks to this valuable forgery that Amarh was able to fraudulently obtain a national identity card, a Senegalese passport, a driver's license, and various business documents.
To complete the operation and finalize the case, the same source continues, the network enlisted the services of Ch. O. Diouf. This construction contractor issued a fraudulent residency certificate containing demonstrably false information. He thus attested, without a shred of objective evidence and without even knowing the individual in question, that the Ghanaian citizen had resided in Bignona since birth. It was this collection of converging evidence, corroborated by the technical analysis of financial transactions and telephone records, that allowed the DNLT investigators to implicate all the key players.
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