Meet Yahya Jammeh, Gambia’s former dictator. Mr Jammeh’s 22-year presidency, which ended in 2017, was notorious for corruption and he also faced allegations of extensive human rights abuses
Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule in Gambia was marked by widespread abuses, forced disappearances, extra judicial killings, and arbitrary detention. He sought exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after losing the December 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow.
Jammeh acquired at least 281 properties during his time in office and operated more than 100 private bank accounts directly or through companies or foundations in which he has shares or an interest, according to the Justice Department’s civil complaint
Some amateur sleuthing and a chance encounter helped uncover how the former president of The Gambia had laundered his money by buying a luxurious property in the US. Now a court has ruled that the $3m £2.4m mansion in the state of Maryland, near Washington DC, should be seized from a trust set up by ex-Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh.
Banjul, Gambia’s former dictator, Yahya Jammeh, amassed over one billion Gambian dalasis about 300 million dollars along with 281 landed properties, a commission said in a report on Friday. Former President Jammeh, during his tenure as head of state between July 1994 and January 2017, directly or indirectly, operated over one hundred bank accounts in The Gambia,” the report revealed.
Regarding Jammeh’s numerous landed properties, the Janneh Commission found out that the former President acquired some 281 properties in form of private residential and commercial properties, islands, forest parks, wild life reserves and wetlands as well as houses in overseas like an expensive house in America and one in Morocco.
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