For a matter of alleged embezzlement of more than 700 billion Guinean francs (76.7 million euros), the Guinean justice system has indicted and placed under a warrant of arrest the Director General of Customs and 10 other officials.

The defendants are being prosecuted according to the charge of the Court for the Suppression of Economic and Financial Offences (CRIEF) for “forgery and use of forgeries, corruption, corruption, embezzlement of public funds, embezzlement of public funds, illicit enrichment, money laundering and complicity”. They are the Director General of Customs, Moussa Camara, his deputy Macky Agreby Diallo and the nine other customs officials. They are accused of having set up, with several freight forwarders, a network at the level of the Directorate-General of Customs to bypass the traditional one-stop payment process, to collect funds at the expense of the State.