The former Prime Minister and candidate for the 2024 presidential election, Amadou Bâ, is in the sights of justice. The observer, which gives information in its edition of this Wednesday, May 7, reports that it is quoted in the report of the Court of Auditors on the management of public finances between 2019 and March 2024, precisely in the case of the dat (term deposits) broken (withdrawn before the retained term) and not transferred to the public treasury. The amount in question amounts to 141 billion 87 million 194 thousand 249 CFA francs, according to listeners.
A date constitutes funds blocked in a bank account for a fixed period and at the end of which they produce interest. If it is a date of the State, money is supposed to be returned to the public accountant at the agreed maturity.
According to the summary proceedings of the Court of Auditors sent to the Minister of Justice, informs the observer, Amadou Bâ, then Minister of the Economy and Finance, “opened and broke the majority of the date referred to by the investigation”. The daily life of the Futures Media group stresses that its name is cited in this file at the same time as that of Cheikh Tidiane Diop, former director general of the Treasury and, at the time of the facts, secretary general of the said ministry.
The auditors of the Court of Auditors cite two examples of broken date under troubled conditions. One is the subject of a letter dated June 30, 2016 and signed by Amadou Bâ. This relates to an amount of 4.107 billion CFA francs for an interest rate of 3.5% per year. “According to the Court of Auditors, after arrest by the General Treasurer, the BRM [Banque régionale des marchés] said this date had been used to reimburse the discount of a order ticket on May 2, 2017. What the investigation intends to determine, “predicts the observer.
-The second example, the subject of a letter from Cheikh Tidiane Diop dated June 3, 2015, “is based on a protocol of agreements for the settlement of debts and debts crossed between the State of Senegal, the Sonatel and the BRM”, informs the newspaper. Which indicates that this protocol bears the signature of Amadou Bâ and concerns a date of an amount of 6.525 billion CFA francs at an interest rate of 3.5% per year.
“According to the Court of Auditors,” reveals the observer, it is the examination of the supporting documents collected from the general cash and depositaries financial institutions which revealed that date is fired to third parties, on the investigation of the ministers responsible for finance or the delegated ministers responsible for the budget. “
The same source indicates that “by giving a financial institution the order to use the dates of a public accountant to pay unauthorized expenses, [ces derniers] have irregularly engaged the state outside the laws of finance ”.
