The commercial agent of the Société Sénégalaise de Boissons (LSB) domiciled at Parcelles assainies is being prosecuted for breach of trust relating to the sum of 14.5 million of our francs. Placed under arrest warrant since April 5, Lady Soda Thiam is accused of having created fictitious purchase orders without the knowledge of her superiors. Which she disputed. She declares having given the money to her superior Oumou Khairy Diop who is absent from the hearing.
“I have been with the company since 2022. From time to time, I handed over the payments of certain customers to our sales manager Oumou Khaïry Diop. When I gave her the money, she often sent her driver to collect it from me. is she the One who validates the invoices,” she defends herself.
The president of the session reminds him of the statements of the lady Oumou Khaïry Diop who had declared that she never gave him money except that outside of her work where she gave him the sum of 495 thousand francs . She continues: “After the affair broke out, you went to his office to tell him that you were taking this money to treat your son who has diabetes and that when you made the recovery, you kept the money in your wardrobe to manage your family’s expenses”, says the president. She retorts that she never said that.
In turn, the collections manager of Société la Sénégalaise des Boissons Hussein Hussein explains the company’s collection procedure. “When customers send orders on the WhatsApp platform. The sales agent takes the written order from Madame Fall to submit the order form which will return to my level for validation. All the orders that I had to collect in this case were validated by myself Afterwards, I started to have doubts Because when I send the collectors, they come back with small amounts. One day, one of the collectors admitted to me that it was Soda Thiam who gave them the money. In fact, she placed fictitious orders and she collected the goods and then resold them. witness to explain the matter in question and the customers confirmed that they never placed these orders,” he says.
According to the civil party’s lawyer, the defendant is not able to justify the money she paid to Madame Fall née Oumou Khaïry Diop. As a result, the black dress asks the court to declare Soda Thiam reached and convicted in order to award the sum of 13.5 million as principal and 1 million for damages and to acknowledge LSB having received an amount of 1 million down payment. During its indictment, the prosecution requires application of the law.
As for the defense, it suggests that the lady is a victim before the law. “She committed a misuse of procedure and not a misuse of money. She had blind trust in this lady who had recruited her,” argued the counsel for the civil party who is asking for an extremely benevolent application of the criminal law.
The case was put under advisement until May 3.
Aida Ndiaye Fall
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