The Public Prosecution in Mauritania asked the investigative judges to refer the file of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and those accused of corruption, illicit enrichment and money laundering to the criminal court specialized in corruption crimes for trial.
The prosecution’s request comes after the investigation pole announced the completion of the investigations, after more than a year of investigation into a file prepared by the Public Prosecution and referred to the judicial investigation.
The prosecution indicated, in a statement issued today, Friday, that its request came “after reviewing the results of the investigation and studying the documents and documents collected during the various investigations, and based on the extensive evidentiary evidence extracted from the file’s documents.”
Commenting on the prosecution’s request, the coordinator of the defense of the former president, lawyer Mohameden Ould Echdo, said that the notification of the end of the investigation that the lawyers received at the end of the investigation was not accompanied by the indictment file, and that the lawyers were completely absent from the investigation procedure and the legal procedures stipulated in the criminal procedures.
He added, in a press statement, that the coordinator of the investigation pole refused to meet with the lawyers after they submitted to him to obtain a file that appears to be “existing with the prosecution” and “lawyers are not entitled to obtain it,” as he said.
The Mauritanian judiciary brought several charges, including corruption, illegal enrichment, money laundering, encroachment on state property and harming its interests, to thirteen people, including former President Ould Abdel Aziz, his brother-in-law and some of his relatives, in addition to others.
Ould Abdel Aziz rejects the charges against him and considers them to be settling political scores.
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