Un tribunal f\u00e9d\u00e9ral d\u2019Abuja, au Nigeria, a condamn\u00e9 l\u2019ancien ministre de l\u2019\u00c9nergie, Saleh Mamman, \u00e0 une peine cumul\u00e9e de 75 ans de prison dans une vaste affaire de fraude financi\u00e8re li\u00e9e \u00e0 des projets d\u2019infrastructures \u00e9lectriques.<\/p>\n
Selon plusieurs m\u00e9dias internationaux, dont\u00a0 <\/span>Reuters, l\u2019ancien ministre a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnu coupable de d\u00e9tournements portant sur environ 33,8 milliards de nairas, soit plusieurs dizaines de millions de dollars am\u00e9ricains.<\/span><\/p>\n Les accusations concernent notamment des irr\u00e9gularit\u00e9s financi\u00e8res li\u00e9es aux projets hydro\u00e9lectriques de Mambilla et de Zungeru, deux projets strat\u00e9giques pour le secteur \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique nig\u00e9rian. La justice nig\u00e9riane estime que des fonds publics destin\u00e9s \u00e0 ces infrastructures ont \u00e9t\u00e9 blanchis et d\u00e9tourn\u00e9s.<\/span><\/p>\n Le verdict a \u00e9t\u00e9 rendu par la Haute Cour f\u00e9d\u00e9rale d\u2019Abuja apr\u00e8s une proc\u00e9dure engag\u00e9e par la Commission des crimes \u00e9conomiques et financiers du Nigeria (EFCC), l\u2019organisme charg\u00e9 de la lutte contre la corruption et les crimes financiers.<\/span><\/p>\n D\u2019apr\u00e8s Reuters, Saleh Mamman aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 sur l\u2019ensemble des chefs d\u2019accusation retenus contre lui. La peine totale cumul\u00e9e atteint 75 ann\u00e9es d\u2019emprisonnement.<\/span><\/p>\n Plusieurs sources indiquent \u00e9galement que l\u2019ancien ministre n\u2019\u00e9tait pas pr\u00e9sent lors du prononc\u00e9 du verdict. Les autorit\u00e9s judiciaires auraient demand\u00e9 aux services de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nig\u00e9rians et internationaux de proc\u00e9der \u00e0 son arrestation afin qu\u2019il puisse purger sa peine.<\/span><\/p>\n Cette condamnation intervient dans un contexte o\u00f9 les autorit\u00e9s nig\u00e9rianes multiplient les op\u00e9rations de lutte contre la corruption, notamment dans les secteurs strat\u00e9giques comme l\u2019\u00e9nergie, les infrastructures et les march\u00e9s publics.<\/span><\/p>\n Gildas Kinda<\/p>\n www.burkinaonline.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Un tribunal f\u00e9d\u00e9ral d\u2019Abuja, au Nigeria, a condamn\u00e9 l\u2019ancien ministre de l\u2019\u00c9nergie, Saleh Mamman, \u00e0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post","category-societe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkinaonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}