Usage de faux, association de malfaiteurs, tentative d’escroquerie à jugement : Dans les secrets de la plainte de Mame Mbaye Niang contre Ousmane Sonko, Cheikh Diba et Yassine Fall
At a press conference, the legal team representing former minister Mame Mbaye Niang announced the filing of a complaint against Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, Minister of Finance and Budget Cheikh Diba, and Minister of Justice Yassine Fall. Lawyers Baboucar Cissé, El Hadji Moustapha Diouf, El Hadji Oumar Youm, Ousmane Thiam, and Ramatoulaye Ba accuse Ousmane Sonko of manipulating an official document to obtain a review of the trial related to the PRODAC case. According to their information, the complaint was filed on January 30, 2026, with the Public Prosecutor at the High Court of Dakar. Registered under number 1777, it accuses Cheikh Diba of forgery, and Ousmane Sonko and Yassine Fall of using forged documents, criminal conspiracy, attempted fraud against the court, and all other accomplices.
The arguments of the collective
In their complaint, the lawyers point out that during a press conference held on November 22, 2022, Ousmane Sonko accused Mame Mbaye Niang, then Minister of Tourism and Leisure, of having been "implicated" in a report by the General State Inspectorate (IGE) for alleged embezzlement in the management of the Community Agricultural Domains Program (PRODAC). He specifically claimed that the supervising minister had issued a service order before the contract was officially awarded to the company Green 2000.
Feeling defamed, Mame Mbaye Niang had filed a complaint with the prosecutor, arguing that no report had implicated him during the period when he was in charge of the technical supervision of PRODAC between July 2014 and September 2017. He had also specified that he did not manage the financial aspects of the program.
During questioning as part of the investigation, Ousmane Sonko acknowledged his statements while claiming it was a slip of the tongue, indicating that it was actually a report from the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) and not the General Inspectorate of State (IGE). He offered to provide a link to the document as well as supporting audiovisual evidence.
However, according to the plaintiff's lawyers, the document in question was not a final report but a preliminary report resulting from an audit that remained unfinished after the death of the head of the audit team before the work could be completed. They also point out that the defamation proceedings resulted in a conviction that became final following the decisions of the Court of Appeal (May 8, 2023) and the Supreme Court (January 4, 2024), with the appeal against the judgment having been rejected on July 1, 2025.
The group argues that, in his capacity as Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko asked the Minister of Finance to validate this unfinalized document in order to use it as a new piece of evidence in a review procedure of the trial, introduced with the Ministry of Justice.
According to the lawyers, the delayed validation of an unfinished preliminary report constitutes intellectual property fraud due to its lack of veracity. They believe this document was produced in legal proceedings with the intention of misleading the court.
The lawyers believe that these acts could be classified as forgery and use of forged documents, criminal association and attempted fraud in court proceedings, offences provided for and punished by the provisions of the Penal Code.
They conclude that the production of a document which they deem irregular in the context of a request for review would, in their view, reflect a concerted effort to obtain a favorable court decision by fraudulent means.
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