Guinea: Junta Orders Prosecution Of Former Leader Condé And Ex-ministers

Guinea’s ruling junta has ordered prosecutors to take legal action against former president Alpha Condé.

The prosecutions against Condé as well as other officials and ex-ministers, include alleged acts of “corruption, illicit enrichment, money laundering and embezzlement of public funds and complicity”.

In total, the Minister of Justice, Alphonse Charles Wright, gave a list of 188 names, some of which are already in prison. Their accounts are frozen, according to the letter sent by the minister to the attorneys general.

The former leader was overthrown in 2021, by Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya. Since then he was granted multiple stays abroad to seek medical treatment.