The head of the Dakar Military Tribunal welcomed the six defendants, including two police officers and four civilians, for a case of trafficking in forged diplomatic passports discovered at the Ministry of Affairs & acute; foreign.

Before the judge, some of the counterfeiters denied the facts of criminal association, migrant smuggling, complicity in forgery, and the use of forgery in private and false writing in a administrative document for which they are being sued. Indeed, Limamoulaye Seck, known as the club's mastermind, said that he earned 500,000 CFA francs for each passport. According to him, his role was to receive the identity cards of the persons concerned and to collect the passport from Chief Warrant Officer Bâ. “We don't have a special relationship. I was often asked to give him money,” he defended himself on the stand. For him, even the former Senegalese international Kara Mbodj benefited from these passports.

Badara Samb, for his part, has declared himself a volunteer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He stated that he approached Limamoulaye Seck when requested by individuals. “I told him that there was an opportunity to make money by issuing diplomatic passports to citizens who gave 3.4 to 5 million CFA francs.”

The prosecutor's office requested a one-year sentence against all the defendants after the hearing. Thus, they will be built on their fate next November 25, the date set for the deliberation. In the meantime, they remain in prison.