Keur Massar : le mystère des 17 millions F CFA cachés sous le lit
Who took the money, the driver or the cousin? The mystery remains. R. Ndiaye, a freight forwarder at the Autonomous Port of Dakar (PAD), discovered that 17 million CFA francs hidden in a bucket under his bed at his home in Keur Massar had disappeared. A troubling detail, notes L'Observateur, which attended the hearing: although the room was ransacked, the gold jewelry and other sums of money, left in plain sight, were untouched, suggesting that the perpetrator knew the hiding place perfectly well.
The account of the events
“On Thursday, February 13, while moving house in the same neighborhood of Keur Massar, she asked her driver, CO Bâ, to transport her personal belongings, including a bed, to her mother’s house. Around 4:20 p.m., she entrusted the key to her room to her cousin NA, whom her mother had raised since childhood and whom she was introducing to the business of freight forwarding, so that she could collect some clothes,” recounts the daily newspaper of the Future Media Group (Gfm).
The only problem was that "the young woman returned, reporting that the room wasn't locked." Panicked, the freight forwarder sent the maid, Mr. Diallo, to "check for the money she had hidden under her bed, in a bucket containing bundles of banknotes." The maid informed him that "everything was there."
The discovery of the flight
It was from this moment that everything changed because "around 7 p.m., the freight forwarder, disturbed, decided to go up to her apartment herself. There she discovered a scene of total disarray: a ransacked bedroom, clothes thrown haphazardly, a bed moved. And above all, the bucket containing the 17 million was empty. Disturbingly, the gold jewelry and another sum of money left in the wardrobe had not been touched."
Suspicion immediately fell on two people close to the victim: his driver, CO Bâ, born in 1998, and his 17-year-old cousin, NA Sèye. While the driver has always denied the allegations, the young girl gave investigators multiple versions of events, accusing the driver first, then others, before briefly confessing to giving the money to her brother, only to recant her statement in court in Pikine-Guédiawaye.
Disturbing evidence, however, incriminates the teenager. The prosecution revealed that NA Sèye had sent a friend a photo of the bucket mentioning the theft and that she had made unusual purchases (shoes, outings with friends) immediately after the incident. For his part, the driver, quoted in the Gfm news report, maintained a consistent line of defense, explaining that his travel plans and the opening of his bank account predated the theft and were known to his employer.
Acquittal based on reasonable doubt
Despite the prosecutor's request for a two-year prison sentence for the driver, the court ruled that the evidence was insufficient and the testimonies too contradictory to secure a conviction. After 45 days in pretrial detention, CO Bâ was released due to lack of evidence. The freight forwarder, who was seeking full reimbursement of her 17 million, left empty-handed, the same source concluded.
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