The deal was arranged with Oil and Energy Minister at the time Karim Wade son of the then President Abdoulaye Wade...
Karim Wade was sentenced to six years in gaol for illegally hiding away funds in offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and Panama...
The release on 24 June of Karim Wade son of the previous President immediately stirred suspicion that President Macky Sall had one eye on next year's elections...
It is not yet clear whether Karim Wade who remains liable for the 210 mn...
He wants his son Karim Wade freed from prison where he is serving a sentence for corruption and to help him to the presidency (AC Vol 56 No 7 Karim's presidential appeal)...
It was Wade's son Karim Wade then Energy Minister who signed the original contract with Timis but Timis appears to have switched his local ally after Wade Senior lost the presidential election in 2012...
Tension between the two powerful political families has grown since Wade's son Karim Wade was convicted of corruption in March (AC Vol 56 No 7 Karim's presidential appeal)...
He has accused Sall of turning his anti-corruption drive into a series of vendettas against ex-President Wade's son Karim Wade and other members of Wade's inner circle (AC Vol 56 No 7 Karim's presidential appeal)...
The most difficult dossier that the new Supreme Court President Mamadou Badio Camara has to deal with is the appeal by Karim Wade against his conviction for illicit enrichment (AC Vol 55 No 24 Martyr or master-crook)...
Coulibaly is the brother of a former investigative journalist Abdou Latif Coulibaly who before becoming Spokesman for President Macky Sall's government wrote books criticising Karim Wade's business practices...
Wade's formerly governing Parti démocratique sénégalais (PDS) is obsessed with securing the acquittal of its leader's son Karim Wade (see Box)...
The trial of former President Abdoulaye Wade's son Karim Meïssa Wade which began in July has been adjourned until 22 December after briefly resuming on 1 December...
Ndao's position had been fatally undermined when Karim Wade's most prominent co-defendant Ibrahima Abou Khalil 'Bibo' Bourgi flew to France for medical treatment on 1 October...
Now supporters of former President Abdoulaye Wade and his son Karim Wade whose trial for the diversion of €178 million (US$184 mn...
They dismiss the case against Karim Wade as a political show trial and are trying to mobilise an alliance of opposition parties...
