In a press release published this Friday, August 12, 2022, the lawyers of the former Guinean Prime Minister, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, reacted to the letter from the Minister of Justice, Charles Wright, urging the General Prosecutor’s Office of Conakry to initiate proceedings legal proceedings once morest the former tenant of the Dove Palace for ” embezzlement, money laundering, corruption and complicity” relating to an amount of more than 41 billion Guinean francs.
The lawyers denounce “the media nature” which was given to this letter from the Minister of Justice and protest once morest “a serious and deliberate violation of the secrecy of the investigation” and “criminal action” by the authors of the publication of this social media letter.
Also, in their press release, Kassory Fofana’s lawyers point to “a manifest and assumed violation of the presumption of innocence” tending to already present their client as guilty of a criminal offense in the eyes of the public. They ensure that “the criminal charges contained in the public denunciation of the Keeper of the Seals are in no way founded”. And, “Faced with the numerous and recurrent violations of Mr. FOFANA’s rights, he remains determined to resist and fight once morest injustice and the constant violation of his rights by the State of Guinea. Against the instrumentalization of a disoriented justice by the military junta, he intends to react systematically by seizing the Guinean courts as well as the international judicial and human rights bodies, ”wrote the lawyers of Kassory Fofana.
It should be recalled that in his letter addressed to the General Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Appeal of Conakry yesterday, Thursday August 11, 2022, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Alphonse Charles Wright, initiated legal proceedings once morest Kassory Fofana and several other executives of ANIES (national agency for economic and social inclusion) for “embezzlement, money laundering, corruption and complicity” involving 41,332,102,229 Guinean francs.
To be continued !
Mamadou Baïlo Keïta for Guineematin.com