The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Repression of Economic and financial offenses (CRIEF) released on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 the former Minister of Urban Affairs and Regional Development, Ibrahima Kourouma

April 21, 2022 to February 17, 2026, after more than After three years of detention, the Appeals Chamber finally released pure and simple. In fact, the former Minister of Urban Affairs and Urban Development Territory (August 23, 2017 to September 5, 2021) was first convicted Instance to four years' imprisonment with a fine of three (3) billion Guinean francs. He was prosecuted for “embezzlement of public funds and illicit enrichment” involving amounts Of 612 billion 520 million 784 thousand 809 francs Guineans and 12 million dollars, alongside the former director administrative and financial services of the Ministry, Mohamed V Sankhon. The president Member of the Chamber, Francis Kova Zoumanigui, declared the two defendants no guilty of the acts with which they were charged, considering that the offenses were not constituted. They were thus sent back for the purposes of the prosecution.