A deputy of the majority in the Republic of Congo, Ghislain Galibali, 51, was sentenced in absentia to 30 years of hard labor and the payment of a heavy fine by the High Court of Justice.
According to the president of this court, Henri Bouka, Galibali “was found guilty of the acts attributed to him, in particular the offense of forgery and use of forgery and fraud for wages”.
In concrete terms, the MP for the constituency of Lékana in the Plateaux (Centre) allegedly made use of “a fake development engineering diploma”, which would be obtained abroad, to obtain a job as an agent within a public road maintenance agency, known as the Road Fund. Thanks to this “consciously established” diploma, Galibali received an envelope of 615,077 FCFA per month.
This cheating was discovered following a mission to verify the compliance of the recruitment files of the agents of the Road Fund and the Office of Control of Buildings and Public Works, for the period 2009-2021.
The fine claimed, to be paid within two years, represents all the wages collected during the 14 years he worked for the agency. “Thus, for forgery in public writing, Ghislain Galibali must pay the sum of 101.3 million FCFA to the Road Fund, in terms of reimbursement of salaries”, explains the High Court.
The court also imposed on the culprit ten years of ineligibility with a ban on registering on the electoral lists. Being outside the national territory, Ghislain Galibali did not attend his trial, nor his lawyer. His immunity had been lifted shortly before the start of the trial.
By OMA Newsletter N° 709 of 19/05/2022
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