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The Public Prosecution in Mauritania asked the investigative judges to refer the file of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and his co-accused to the criminal court specialized in corruption crimes for trial.
Prosecutors accused Ould Abdel Aziz and some of his regime figures of corruption, illicit enrichment and money laundering.
The prosecution’s request comes after the investigation pole announced the completion of the investigations, which lasted more than a year.
The prosecution indicated in a statement issued today, Friday, that its request came “after reviewing the results of the investigation and studying the documents and documents collected during the various stages of the investigation, and based on the extensive evidentiary evidence extracted from the file’s documents.”
It was also based on what it described as the extensive evidence extracted from the file’s documents, according to the text of the statement.
For his part, the coordinator of the defense of the former president, lawyer Mohameden Ould Echdo, said that the notification of the end of the investigation, which reached the lawyers at the end of the investigation, was not accompanied by the indictment file, and that the lawyers were completely absent from the investigation procedure and the legal procedures stipulated in the criminal procedures.
He added that the coordinator of the investigation pole refused to meet with the lawyers after they submitted to him to obtain a file that appears to be “existing with the prosecution” and the lawyers are not entitled to obtain it,” he said.
Ould Abdel Aziz, his son-in-law, some of his relatives and symbols of his regime face many charges, including corruption, illegal enrichment, money laundering, encroachment on the state’s real estate property and harming its interests.
Ould Abdel Aziz rejects the charges against him and considers them settling accounts aimed at preventing him from engaging in political activity.
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