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Man gets 10-year jail term for stealing over D3M from APS

Feb 27, 2025, 11:33 AM

The Brikama Magistrates’ Court presided over by Magistrate A.O. Mendy has sentenced Ouasinou Touray 10 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to stealing over 3 million dalasis.

The accused is additionally urged to compensate the complainant with 28,000 dalasis in default to serve a 2-year jail term.

He was charged with three counts of stealing, conspiracy to commit felony and breaking in to a building. 

The prosecution led by Commissioner Malang Jarju and ASP Yaya S. Colley alleged that Ousainou Touray on the 1st day of March 2024 at APS Micro Finance branch at Old Yundum, conspired to commit a felony.

The accused was also alleged to have broken and entered the APS Micro Finance at Yundum thereby committed an offence. 

The prosecution further alleged that the accused stole a sum of three million, seven hundred and forty two thousand, one hundred and sixty two dalasis (D3, 742,162.00) from APS Micro Finance contrary to section 252 of the Criminal Code Cap 10 Vol.3 Laws of The Gambia 

The accused person who was un-represented initially denied all the three-count charges levelled against him but he later changed his plea from not guilty to guilty