Decidedly, the Senegalese are not at the end of their surprises concerning this affair.
Worse, reports Liberation in its delivery, the CCTV images showed two members of the crew, Ovhuk Vitaly, Podgorodetskyi and Trofimov Vadym, tampering with the numbers of the containers in the middle of the night by taking them off and resticking them using stickers.
Customs officers counted two million units of live ammunition of 5.56 mm caliber, representing a value of 2,500,000,000 CFA francs; one hundred thousand units of 5.56 mm caliber blank bullets for a value of 5,000,000 CFA francs and one million one hundred thousand units of 9mm caliber live bullets for a value of 831,000,000 CFA francs, which makes a total of more than 3 billion CFA francs
Arriving urgently from Athens, capital of Greece, Theodore Rellos, head of Marine Corp and Designate persona shore manager of the ship, was arrested.
Beyond the criminal proceedings, Customs is claiming 14.066 billion CFA francs from the crew of the “Mv Eolika”. senenews.com
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad His Excellency Dr. Mamadou Tangara, has taken part in the Francophone Summit in Djerba, Tunisia.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Conference on COVID-19 on April 28 in Beijing.
Press release
The statement by His Excellency, the President that “Auditors express various types of audit opinions on Financial Statements” should neither be misconstrued as Mr Barrow trivialising the important work of auditors nor diminishing their crucial contributions in defining and shaping accountability mechanisms in the Public Financial Management sphere.
The Gambia has registered six new covid-19 related deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 277, according to the 356th national situation report since the confirmation of the first case of the coronavirus disease in The Gambia, on the 16th March 2020
