They are cited in the award by the Malian authorities of a 60 million dollar market to the South African company Paramount, for the purchase of armored vehicles, part of which has not been delivered, indicated a judicial source. at AFP.
The arrest warrant is dated July 25, according to the text.
Il “follows the opening by the investigative chamber of the Supreme Court of Mali of a judicial investigation into the facts qualified as the crime of forgery and use of forgery, attack on public property and complicity of these offenses, facts related to the case of the public market says Paramount”the Supreme Court statement said.
This market “is part of the implementation of the military orientation and programming law as well as the programming law for internal security”, according to the same source.
The alleged facts occurred in 2015 under the presidency of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, now deceased.
Former Minister Mamadou Igor Diarra says that during his last stay in Mali in March, he “spontaneously went to certain authorities in order to notify them of (his) availability on any file” court concerning him, in a press release sent to AFP on Wednesday. Mamadou Diarra, currently head of Central Africa for Boa Groupe, a subsidiary of the Moroccan banking group Bank of Africa BMCE, says he has “decided to entrust the defense of (his) interests to (his) counsel”.
In a press release dated August 1, former minister Boubou Cissé said he “determined to clear (his) honor”. He asserts that“At the time of the conclusion of this contract in October 2015”, he was in charge of the Ministry of Mines, “thus foreign to the conclusion of this contract”.
Boubou Cissé adds that he does not have “never sought to flee (his) responsibilities or to escape (his) duties as a litigant as long as the justice of our country remains independent and impartial”.
Also in a press release published on August 1, former minister Tièman Hubert Coulibaly affirms that “if the Malian justice were to seek to locate my responsibility within the framework of any judicial investigation, it has the latitude to proceed by means of a letter rogatory to which I undertake to respond promptly”.
In March, the former Prime Minister of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Boubèye Maïga, died in detention in a case of suspected fraud, despite warnings from his family about the deterioration of his state of health.
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He was suspected mainly in connection with the purchase in 2014, when he was Minister of Defense, of a presidential plane for an amount of 20 billion CFA francs (about 30.5 million euros). An acquisition pinned by the Auditor General’s Office (BVG), an independent Malian authority which denounced practices of overbilling, embezzlement of public funds, fraud, influence peddling and favouritism.