The financial prosecutor’s office referred the matter to the DIC for an investigation into the dispute surrounding Land Title 1451/R, known as the “94 billion affair”. This file concerns land with an area of 258 hectares located in the Rufisque area and valued at 94 billion Cfa francs.
Initially, it was a dispute between the heirs of Ousmane Mbengue and Djily Mbaye, a wealthy marabout and businessman who died in 1991. The case took a political turn when Ousmane Sonko, then deputy (opposition), s is involved, denouncing the dispossession of a destitute family (the Mbengue) with the complicity of senior officials. Tahibou Ndiaye and Mamour Diallo, respectively former directors of Land Registry and Lands, were implicated in this affair.
On October 15, seven months after the high court of Dakar ordered the cancellation of the pre-notation on the land title in question, the lawyers of the heirs of Ousmane Mbengue seized the financial prosecutor’s office for a complaint. Their request is based on an Ofnac report indicating, according to the complainants, “that large sums were collected [dans le cadre de cette affaire] by third party structures or persons without their knowledge and with the complicity of senior officials of the State of Senegal.
It is to clarify all this that the financial prosecutor’s office opened an investigation. According to Libération, taken up by Seneweb, the prosecutor is targeting four counts: fraud, breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery and money laundering. The newspaper underlines that the heirs of the late Mbeugour Mbengue, who joined the procedure, have become civil parties.
