Just yesterday, dakarposte returned to what is commonly called “the affair of the mafia of falsified Treasury checks”.
Given the der of ders that has reached us, this affair that some prosaically call the mafia of falsified Treasury Checks and undeclared imports is far from knowing its epilogue. “A scandal which has not yet revealed all its secrets. Other heads, directly or indirectly involved in this deal, which does not date from today, risk falling” informs a Dakarposte source to the scent of scandal.
For the moment, the manager of “Touba Transit” Mallé Seck, a lady named Rama and a Public Treasury official named Mansour Kane have been questioned since last Friday in the dreaded DIC premises on rue Carde.
The latest news is that the trio has been taken into custody.
Finally, note that check forgery is not a benign act. In addition to a fine, the penalty can be heavy Important point: this penalty also applies to the person who knowingly agreed to receive a counterfeit or falsified check.
As a reminder, very recently, towards the end of last September, our colleagues at Libération reported that Customs had discovered a vast fraud affair in which the Public Treasury lost 8 billion CFA francs. Previously, an arrest was made by the Criminal Investigation Division (Dic).
According to the newspaper Libération, on September 18, Customs closed a vast fraud operation linked to undeclared imports, resulting from the use of irregular means of payment to recover imported goods, without paying customs duties. The case is now in the hands of justice.
Indeed, according to the daily, following information concerning this practice at the autonomous port of Dakar (Pad), an investigation was initiated into the use of allegedly counterfeit Treasury checks, as well as checks issued by the Directorate of scheduling of public expenditure and guaranteed obligations.
According to Libération, the analysis of the Gainde system (automated customs information and trade management system) allowed customs agents to bring together all the operations linked to the incriminated payment methods. It was established that the events took place between 2019 and 2023, totaling an amount of 8 billion CFA francs.
At the same time, the Criminal Investigation Division (Dic) also opened an investigation which led to the arrest of one of the beneficiaries of these counterfeit checks, while a freight forwarder was referred by Customs.
In all cases, the prosecution initiated legal proceedings for “importation without declaration, money laundering, embezzlement of public funds, forgery and use of forged bank records”, reports Libération.
