Already there have been almost 200 arrests including Yewwi MP Mame Diarra Fame party treasurer Déthié Fall and Ahmet Aidara – the man who in January defeated Aliou Sall controversial brother of the head of state as mayor of Guédiawaye...
Yewwi also ousted the president's brother Aliou Sall as mayor of Guédiawaye and seized other important urban centres including Thiès Rufisque and Kaolack; the government was only saved from defeat in St...
Meanwhile politicos will be keeping an interested eye on Guédiawaye a sprawling Dakar suburb where Aliou Sall the brother of the President is standing for re-election as mayor (AC Vol 60 No 12 An oily threat to Sall)...
Sonko taps into real hunger for change among young urban Senegalese angry at the lack of jobs and rumours of corruption epitomised by the bribery allegations against presidential brother Aliou Sall (AC Vol 60 No 12 An oily threat to Sall)...
Dirty tricksSonko a former tax inspector who campaigned against corruption before entering politics and wrote a book accusing Aliou Sall of taking bribes for energy concessions is the natural voice for these frustrations...
Ever since BBC television's Panorama current affairs programme revealed apparent evidence that controversial British-based Australian/Romanian businessman Vasile Frank Timis made massive payments to President Macky Sall's brother Aliou Sall the political scene in Senegal has been in turmoil...
The programme alleged that Timis's Senegal company Petro-Tim's employment of Aliou Sall was likely to have influenced the award of the St...
Yet any evidence was lacking until the BBC's Panorama revealed secret accounts detailing payments from Timis to Aliou Sall of $250 000 plus a salary of $25 000 a month...
Aliou Sall says he is suing for libel while Timis's lawyers in London Schillings have described the BBC's allegations as 'entirely false' and defended Timis's handling of an oil concession that 'now has the potential to generate many billions of dollars revenue for the people of Senegal and provide gas to generate power which can be supplied across the whole of West Africa to the benefit of many millions more people'...
Brothers under fireThis is not the first time Aliou Sall's association with Timis has caused embarrassment for the presidency...
After reports emerged in 2016 accusing Aliou Sall of taking payments from Timis he resigned from Petro-Tim but kept his job as mayor of the Dakar suburb of Guédiawaye...
' The allegations have prompted a flurry of comments from other members of the Dakar elite named in connection with the business including millionaire architect and former presidential candidate Pierre Goudiaby Atépa who introduced Timis to Aliou Sall in China when Sall was a diplomat there (AC Vol 59 No 23 A well-oiled machine)...
Speaking to local press from Paris Atépa defended Aliou Sall calling him an 'excellent commercial agent' and said that he had not received 'a cent' from Timis...
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Timis's association with Aliou Sall a one-time employee of Timis's Senegalese company PetroTim and the brother of Senegalese President Macky Sall has long been the subject of local controversy (AC Vol 56 No 18 Timis under scrutiny)...
The deal was confirmed by the newly elected President Macky Sall that April when his brother Aliou Sall held an executive position in the company from which he has since resigned...
He believes Senegal's newfound assets have already been sold off and he demands action against Aliou Sall for influence-peddling and conflicts of interests...
None of these officials will face any punitive action least of all Aliou Sall who in September 2017 was given a juicy position at the head of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations du Sénégal (CDC) best described as a state-run finance and investment firm modelled on the French original...
The building itself will be designed by the architect Pierre Goudiaby Atépa who introduced Timis to Aliou Sall when the latter was working at the Senegalese embassy in Beijing where Goudiaby has an office...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is understood to be looking at Timis's close association with Aliou Sall brother of Senegal's President Macky Sall (AC Vol 56 No 18 Timis under scrutiny) and in Freetown a British judge has been listening to the complaints of Sierra Leoneans in a landmark case against another Timis-founded company the now-defunct African Minerals Limited (AML – AC Vol 59 No 3 Drilling down)...
The current scandal in Senegal over questions about Timis's association with Aliou Sall brother of President Macky Sall has increased Banjul's wariness of a company associated with Timis Africa Confidential understands (AC Vol 58 No 10 Majors push out the minnows & Vol 56 No 18 Timis under scrutiny)...
President Sall has come under mounting pressure from opposition figures in Dakar calling on him to distance himself from both Timis and his own brother Aliou Sall whose position as an employee in several Timis companies has been at the root of many accusations of corruption and bribery related to the country's oil and gas boom (AC Vol 56 No 18 Timis under scrutiny)...
