Published on : 28/04/2022 – 22:46
The former president of the National Assembly Amadou Damaro Camara and of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Louncény Camara, were charged and imprisoned in the civil prison of Conakry last night.
Justice accuses Amadou Damaro Camara of having embezzled money when he was in office at the National Assembly between April 22, 2020 and September 5, 2021. Several files are intertwined. But the main one concerns the construction of the new seat of the National Assembly. It was originally a contract of nearly 15 billion GNF (about 1.6 million euros) of which a very large part would have evaporated.
The former president of the National Assembly Amadou Damaro Camara, the former deputy Lounceny Camara and the former quaestor of the Assembly Michel Kamano were heard on several occasions by the central direction of the judicial investigations of the national gendarmerie, which conducted the preliminary investigation.
Then around 3 p.m. Wednesday, they were brought before the Court of Repression of Economic and Financial Offenses (Crief). Their interrogation lasted until 1am. The Crief prosecutor charged them with acts of embezzlement of public funds, corruption, embezzlement in the award of public contracts, illicit enrichment and conflicts of interest. Only Michel Kamano was able to leave free, under judicial control.