Mauritania’s ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who faces a trial for alleged corruption, said on Thursday that he had been barred from travelling abroad. He went to the airport to travel on Wednesday but “was prevented from doing so by the political police, which said it had received instructions”, he said on Facebook. The police […]
Mauritania's ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who faces a trial for alleged corruption, said on Thursday that he had been barred from travelling abroad. He went to the airport to travel on Wednesday but "was prevented from doing so by the political police, which said it had received instructions", he said on Facebook. The police…
He went to the airport to travel on Wednesday but “was prevented from doing so by the political police, which said it had received instructions”, he said on Facebook. He and 11 other figures from his former regime have been charged for suspected corruption, money laundering and illicit enrichment, dating from the time when he was in power.“Just two days ago, a person who was on the same list as me was able to travel,” Abdel Aziz said in a video posted on his Facebook page.
Government spokesman Nany Ould Chrougha earlier Wednesday had told reporters that Abdel Aziz’s behaviour aimed to influence the case against him.
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