After former ministers Lat Diop and Abdoulaye Sow, El Hadji Malick Diop, a customs declarant, is the target of the hunt launched by the new authorities. According to Libération, which provides the information, the accused, who was opposed to leaving the country, was intercepted in Rosso, a commune in southern Mauritania, located on the border with Senegal, while he was trying to flee the country. It was under these conditions that Diop was arrested on Monday and then taken to Dakar, the newspaper reports.
“This case is the continuation of a vast affair of imports without declarations on which Customs is investigating,” explains the daily news. This mafia dismantled within the Port of Dakar had forced, according to the same Source, Dubai Port World (DPW), which operates the container terminal in the northern zone of the port, “to transact to the tune of almost 4 billion CFA francs.”
Targeted in the same case, three freight forwarders are currently in prison, reports Libération.
