The trial of Dr. Ibrahima Kourouma, former Guinean Minister of Pre-University Education and Literacy was opened on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at the Court for the Suppression of Economic and Financial Offences (CRIEF). He is being prosecuted for embezzlement of public funds

Ibrahima Kourouma strongly denied the accusations against him and recalled that he held public office between 2011 and 2021, first as Minister of Pre-University Education and Literacy (2011-2017), first as Minister of Pre-University Education and Literacy (2011-2017), and then as Minister of Cities and Am& Land Management (2017-2021). In particular, the Court examined the expenditure associated with the organisation of national examinations during its term of office.

These amounts, listed in the order of reference, include amounts of 232 billion, 225 billion, and 154 billion GNF. Dr. Kourouma's lawyers pleaded for his provisional release, stressing that he had already spent long months in custody. But the representative of the state judicial officer opposed this request, demanding the prior payment of a bond of GNF 100 billion, a sum that the defendant said he did not