The former Mauritanian president was placed under house arrest for corruption

On Tuesday, a Mauritanian judge ordered former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Nouakchott is to be placed under house arrest. This is a new marginalization of the former head of state accused of corruption.

On Tuesday, the investigating judge heard the former president who was between 2008 and 2019 die He took power for the second time since he was charged in March with corruption, money laundering and illicit enrichment.

Aziz, the die Rejecting allegations and treating them as a maneuver to remove him from politics was placed under judicial control with an obligation to come to the police station three times a week and ask the judge’s permission to leave Nouakchott.

According to the decision of the coroner, who was seen by AFP, he will be placed in house arrest for a period of two months, which can be extended four times.

His lawyers sentenced die “unfair” measure. they said in a statement that “this harassment is merely intended to prevent the former president from getting through die Constitution to enjoy guaranteed political rights “.

His new party “The National Ribat” also condemned that he was placed under house arrest.

A new stage in the marginalization of Abdel Aziz

After more than ten years in power between 2008 and 2019, this charge marks a new phase in the marginalization of Abdel Aziz during the reign of his successor Mohamed Ould Sheikh Al-Ghazwani, his former head of office and former minister, although it paved the way for his Access to the presidency.

Ould Abdel Aziz claims he faces a “reckoning” under the current president die Defend the independence of the judiciary.

Aziz indicated his return in die Policy in April by founding a small opposition party called the National Ribat.

He is now the target of a lawsuit by lawmakers who accused them of corruption, and die Police heard his testimony on the matter in early May.

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