Already indicted for several economic and financial crimes and placed under judicial supervision, ex-President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz also faces a defamation complaint. Relieved by the words of the former raïs who accuses them of corruption, parliamentarians have just lodged a defamation complaint through their lawyers, in this case Masters Mohammadi Baba, Mohamed Ould Ely and Diagana Ibrahima.
During a press conference organized on April 28, 2021, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz had suggested that the deputies subscribed to the parliamentary inquiry into his governance which covers the period 2008-2019, because they had been bribed to the tune of 300 million ouguiyas, or 828 thousand USD.
According to the local press, the residence of the former president located in Bénichab (60 km north of Nouakchott) was – this Tuesday, May 4 – the scene of a descent of the investigation pole into alleged economic and financial crimes which would have been perpetrated under the magisterium of the former president.
The ex-president’s setbacks began when he returned to the country, after a stay abroad, to play a leading political role through the UPR (Union for the Republic) party of which he is the founder. .