Since Tuesday, September 17, 27 magistrates specializing in the fight against corruption and economic crimes have been officially installed within the financial judicial pool. This structure will be responsible for examining complaints of corruption, embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and financing of terrorism.
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With our correspondent in Dakar, Lea-Lisa Westerhoff
Installed on Tuesday, September 17 in Dakar, the brand new financial judicial pool replaces the Court for the Repression of Illicit Enrichment (CREI) which was created in 1981 and had more limited prerogatives. But for Baye el-Malick Diop, clerk and general secretary of the Union of Workers of the Justicethe CREI had also and above all become an outdated body: “ Financial crime is a crime that evolves very quickly. It was therefore necessary to have judicial personnel, magistrates, capable of tracking it down effectively. This is why the legislator considered it necessary to set up a specialized jurisdiction “.
27 magistrates specializing in financial delinquency
As a result, the 27 magistrates who make up the new pool are specialized in financial delinquency with expanded skills. They are required to deal with ” economic and financial crimes, terrorist financing, money laundering and many other complex crimes, all with the guarantee of a fair trial ” with, in particular, the possibility of appealing, explains Mamady Diané, one of the new magistrates of the structure.
Everyone now has the right to have their case heard at first instance and reheard on appeal.
Mamady Diané, magistrate near the financial indictment chamber of the new financial judicial pool
” This pool is not installed for a year or two but forever. »
As for those who fear that this new pool could be the source of political score-settling, Assane Gueye, in charge of good governance at Pastef – the party in power – wants to be reassuring: “ On the contraryhe says, This house installed today is not focused on the actions of the outgoing regime, but rather on those of the current regime. It is not installed for a year or two, but forever. Today, we are here so that corruption stops definitively in Senegal “.
For their part, the Senegalese are impatient to see this financial judicial pool get to work.
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