USA: Panama Papers Press Gadio, Senegal's Former MAE

New facts come to overwhelm Cheikh Tidiane Gadio. The former Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs, accused of corruption and placed under house arrest in the United States, has received transfers estimated at 400,000 dollars (about 200 million CFA francs), from Queensmart and Beauty Connection. According to the French daily Libération the American justice would have discovered that these two companies belong to Patrick Ho, co-accused of Cheikh Tidiane Gadio in a case of corruption of some African leaders. The Chinese businessman, Patrick Ho, would have acquired these two companies through the firm Mossack Fonseca, which is at the heart of the Panama Papers.

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The co-accused of the former head of Senegalese diplomacy would have used the companies in question to corrupt some African heads of state and government. In 2016, nearly 20 million euros (14 billion CFA francs) would have passed through the accounts of Queensmart and Beauty Connection and are intended for "mysterious beneficiaries, most of whom are on the African continent," the newspaper release . Patrick Ho's name was also linked to other companies in the Bahamas and Jersey. They would have served as a screen for the transfer of 400,000 dollars in the accounts belonging to Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, domiciled in banks in Dubai.

As a reminder, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, former Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs under Abdoulaye Wade, was arrested in November 2017. His co-accused of Chinese origin would have gone through him to bribe President Idriss Déby, in the purchase of Chadian oil blocks. Pending trial, the former head of Senegalese diplomacy is currently being held in residence in Maryland in the United States.