A new politico-financial bomb has just burst in Senegal. The former Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Finance, Amadou Ba, is cited in a case of term deposits evaluated at more than 141 billion FCFAplaced, broken, but never donated to the public treasury. Information was revealed in the daily Observer In its publication of Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
According to the newspaper, the Court of Auditors has exposed a parallel system for public finance management, outside of regulatory circuits. The control body calls forOpening of criminal proceduresas the irregularities noted are serious.
Among the personalities mentioned, Sheikh Tidiane Diopformer director general of the Treasury and ex-secretary general of the Ministry of Finance, is in good place. At the time of the facts, he held strategic functions and would have facilitated these financial operations deemed questionable.
The investigation also evokes the discoveries made by a former general treasurer, after having Arrested the banks concerned. These are now targeted by Judicial requisitions and rogatory commissions abroadwithin the framework of a vast operation of verification and traceability of the funds.
