An interim injunction against the property of the former President of the Constitutional Court, Mohamed Lamine Bangoura, was ordered by the Court of Repression of Economic and Financial Crimes (CRIEF). He is being prosecuted for alleged acts of “embezzlement of public funds, illicit enrichment, corruption, money laundering and

The lawyers of the defendant Bangoura met with the judges of the court before the Special Investigative Control Chamber on Thursday, April 27, 2023. They contested the decision. According to Facinet Soumah, one of the accused's lawyers, this measure was “unlawfully taken since there was no prior hearing even though our code of criminal procedure is built around the principle of contradiction.” According to him, within this order of the Investigative Chamber, the provisions of the law on corruption do not correspond to what was said by the prosecutor's office. The case is postponed to 4 May 2023, the date on which the judges of the Special Investigative Control Chamber will rule on this request to “lift the provisional arrest”