The observer lifts the veil on a state affair with tentacular ramifications, revealed in an explosive summary of the Court of Auditors sent to the Minister of Justice. At the heart of the file, no less than 114.4 billion FCFA escaped from the Radars of the Public Treasury, ten emblematic public buildings sold, and practices that borders on institutional sabotage.
According to the observer, it is a system as complex as an Opt which was put in place, under the seal of the Sukuk Sogepa 2022, a bond loan of 330 billion FCFA orchestrated by the National Company of Management and Operating of the Built of the State (SOGEPA). The latter, made to measure via law n ° 2021-36 of November 22, 2021, served as an operational arm for a sophisticated financial mechanism, based on the sale of ten strategic state buildings, nestled in the heart of Dakar.
These buildings, sold for 198.092 billion FCFA, were used as a guarantee to secure funds in an assembly where the State found itself to rent its own goods, before a possible redemption at maturity. A turn of budgetary magic which, on paper, could seem legal. But behind this well -oiled facade, the magistrates of the Court of Auditors discovered an accounting abyss: 114.4 billion FCFA from the loan were executed outside the accounts of the Treasury, without a valid ministerial account opening or ministerial signature.
The observer stresses that the survey reveals the involvement of the Islamic Bank of Senegal, which has turned more than 247 billion FCFA in an account entitled “Relaunch of the economy”. Only 132.9 billion FCFA were effectively collected by the Treasury. The rest ? A financial nebula whose traceability escapes conventional budgetary rules. Worse, transfer orders are signed by the Director General of the Budget, and not by the Minister of Finance as required by the law.
But the case does not stop there.
The domino effect of other cases: routing public finances
In this same referral transmitted to the Keeper of the Seals Ousmane Diagne, the Court evokes four other equally alarming cases:
• Case n ° 2: 80 billion FCFA not counted in the Treasury books, from a credit contracted with IB Bank Togo and Burkina, without the nature of the funded equipment being specified.
• Case n ° 3: term deposits (DAT) worth 141 billion FCFA, broken and transferred to third parties, without reversal to the treasury and in flagrant violation of the decree on public accounting.
• Case n ° 4: The issue of nominative obligations certificates (CNO) for a total of 546.7 billion FCFA, some of which were signed after the presidential election, creating an additional colossal cost for public finances.
• Case n ° 5: commercial bank accounts, open and used on the orders of the Minister of Finance, were used to execute unauthorized extrabudgetary expenses, often for the benefit of third parties without legal link proven with the State.
A justice under tension, a state of state in gestation
The magistrates of the Court of Auditors believe that certain revealed acts are likely to be qualified as criminal offenses. They therefore seized the Minister of Justice for the opening of legal proceedings, while the division of criminal investigations is already on the war foot.
