Prosecutors suppose Yahya Jammeh corruptly obtained millions of bucks by stealing public funds and soliciting bribes.
Published On 27 May presumably 2022
The US Division of Justice (JOC) says it has secured the forfeiture of a Maryland property purchased by ragged Gambian President Yahya Jammeh with about $3.5m in alleged corruption proceeds.
In an announcement on Thursday, the JOC acknowledged a court docket-ordered judgement and bid of forfeiture had been given on Tuesday.
The judgement changed into once the outcomes of a civil forfeiture complaint filed by the US in 2020 seeking the forfeiture of the Sir Bernard Law County property purchased in 2010 by Jammeh via a belief issue up by his spouse Zineb Jammeh.
“The US intends to sell the property, and suggest to the Attorney In vogue that the pick up proceeds from the sale of the forfeited property be aged to be taught the of us of The Gambia harmed by ragged President Jammeh’s acts of corruption and abuse of area of enterprise,” the JOC acknowledged.
Jammeh, who seized vitality in the small West African nation in a 1994 coup, first and main refused to concede defeat in a 2016 election to the unusual President Adama Barrow.
But he fled into exile after the intervention of troops from the regional bloc, the Financial Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS).
He now lives in Equatorial Guinea, which has no extradition treaty with The Gambia and has denied allegations of wrongdoing, at the side of corruption, levelled against him.
The US alleged that Jammeh corruptly obtained millions of bucks via the misappropriation of stolen public funds and by soliciting bribes from companies seeking to make monopoly rights in diversified sectors of the Gambian economic system.
“This case demonstrates our capability to work with international partners to proper the forfeiture of belongings allegedly derived from illicit bribes and stolen funds despite advanced attempts to conceal the proceeds and their meant recipients,” acknowledged Assistant Attorney In vogue Kenneth A Well mannered Jr of the division’s prison division.
The observation came on the same day the authorities in The Gambia acknowledged it had accredited strategies by a truth and reconciliation price that Jammeh be prosecuted for waste, rape, torture and moderately a pair of alleged crimes dedicated for the length of his 22-year presidency.
Its justice ministry had acknowledged on Wednesday that it accredited all however two of the 265 strategies made by the price.
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